The British Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it has begun deploying the army to support hospitals facing staff shortages and extreme pressures due to the country’s record COVID-19 cases. The government said 200 members of the Armed Forces had been deployed to support the National Health Service (NHS) in London over the next […]
Tag: Omicron mutation
SYRIZA-KINAL: The first match was written with ‘Omicron’
By Niki Zorba What mediated from that interview of Alexis Tsipras in mid-December, in which he signaled the “tender” treatment of KINAL under his new leadership, through his disgust: “My opponent is Kyriakos Mitsotakis” and not the progressive forces, until the day before yesterday when the first skirmishes between SYRIZA and KINAL officially started? The […]
Macron is looking for scapegoats
By Costas Raptis What is more problematic: the French president’s vocabulary, regular calculations or political philosophy? Emanuel Macron caused a stir with the not at all presidential use of the French colloquial verb emmerder, when in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisién he confessed that he wanted to “break the nerves” (we translate in […]
WHERE: Omicron causes less serious illness, but it is not mild
The most contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to cause less serious illness than the world-leading Delta strain, but should not be categorized as “mild,” the World Health Organization (WHO) chief said today. Speaking to reporters, Tentros General Manager Antanom Gebregesous also reiterated his call for greater equality worldwide in the distribution and access of […]
Thailand: Alarm level raised due to Omicron
Thailand has raised the alert level for COVID-19 following an increase in cases due to the spread of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus, a senior health ministry official said today. Changing the level of the alarm from the third to the fourth level to deal with the pandemic paves the way for possible […]
Sweden: Record new cases and increase in hospital admissions
Sweden set a new record high on Wednesday with 17,320 additional infections in the past 24 hours, according to official figures from the Nordic health ministry. The previous record was 11,507 cases on December 30. The Omicron variant is now predominant in Sweden, where almost one in five molecular tests (PCR) for detecting the virus […]
Fauci: Studies show Omicron is milder than Delta – What’s the danger to children
The White House Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that a growing body of data indicates that Covid’s Micron variant is less severe than the Delta strain, but warned that hospitals could still face pressure due to the unprecedented number of new infections sweeping the US. “Multiple sources of preliminary data now indicate […]
Italy now makes vaccination mandatory for those over 50 years of age
According to the decisions of the cabinet of the Draghi government, which has just been completed, the vaccination of citizens over 50 years of age becomes mandatory in Italy. Essentially, two avenues have been adopted: for citizens over the age of 50 who do not work, compulsory vaccination is directly required. For citizens, always of […]
‘Suffocation’ in the National Health System of England
Boris Johnson once again hopes… He hopes that England “will be able to face the invasion of Omicron without the country re-entering the lockdown regime”. That was at least his basic belief, in yesterday’s press conference he gave after days of absence due to Christmas. It is a fact, however, that the United Kingdom has […]
Bulgaria: Foreign Minister positive about coronavirus
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Teodora Jenkowska tested positive for coronavirus amid a rapid rise in new cases in the Balkan country, the foreign ministry said today. Jenkowska, who has been vaccinated in two doses, will remain under medical supervision, the ministry said in a statement without elaborating. According to the ministry, Deputy Foreign Minister Irena Dimitrova […]
