CORONAVIRUS: Europe, At The Mercy Of The Omicron "Storm": "We Have To Survive The winter"
The WHO warns of the threat of the new variant that looms over Europe and that will put health systems "on the brink". The song says that, at Christmas, "joy must be celebrated." However, in Europe, this will be a strange Christmas again, with small meetings, empty streets and closed shops, and with everyone waiting to see if two lines appear in the test that confirm what seems almost inevitable: positive for coronavirus . Ómicron is becoming the dominant variant in countries such as Denmark, Portugal or the United Kingdom. "Another storm is coming; these are unprecedented transmission rates. In a matter of weeks, omicron will dominate and push health systems even further to the brink. The key question is how to survive the winter, how to leave no one behind," Dr. Hans Kluge sentenced yesterday, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Europe. With the continent turned "once again into the epicenter of the epidemic", in the words of t...