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China's strict corona measures worked, the economy grew during the pandemic. Now Omicron has reached the country and many fear the consequences. Chinese state television 's announcement this week sounded whimsical: "Minimize the purchase of overseas goods from countries with a high incidence," the CCTV website reads.   And if so, it went on to say, packages and envelopes should be opened outdoors if possible and the recipients should definitely wear masks and gloves. In short: There is a warning about postal items as a potential way of spreading the coronavirus. Various local health authorities had previously whispered in press releases that the first Omicron case registered in the capital, Beijing, may have come via a package from Canada, the United States and Hong Kong. The person is said to have infected two other people, and a case with the Delta variant was also reported in the capital. From a scientific point of view, such transmission routes are considered impl...

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...

Dominic Raab defends the premier after the publication of the snapshots: "People were exhausted and they were just having a drink" Attorney General Dominic Raab has defended Boris Johnson following the release of photos from the "party" on May 15, 2020 in Downing Street Gardens, attended by 17 people (including the "premier" and his wife Carrie) when Covid restrictions limited encounters to two people from different outdoor homes. "The photo shows a group of people having a few drinks after a hectic day of business meetings," Raab said. "In other workplaces they would have done the same and that would not mean breaking the rules." The attorney general's version differs in any case from that of Downing Street, which claimed that it was a business meeting in the open air (despite the presence of cheese and wine). The publication of the photo in The Guardian has rekindled the fire of "Partygate" , the scandal of the Covid par...

The protest, one of the largest held since the start of the pandemic, coincided with the declaration of a "serious incident" in London. Thousands of anti-vaccine protesters from all over the United Kingdom collapsed Parliament Square in London this Saturday and staged clashes with the police in front of the Dowing Street fences, shouting "No to Covid passports!", "Down with tyranny! " and "Stop Boris Johnson!" The street protest, one of the largest held since the start of the pandemic, coincided with the declaration of a "serious incident" in London by the mayor, Sadiq Khan , before the spread of the Omicron variant , which is considered responsible for the 60% of new cases in the city. Khan warned that casualties from the recent wave of infections are already wreaking havoc on hospitals and may leave firefighters and police under-staffed. Trump Supporters Sentenced To Five Years In Prison The number of patients in our hospitals is risi...

A new variant of the corona virus ( Omicron ) is spreading around the world, with several countries closing their borders, while researchers have expressed ignorance about whether the omicron virus is more dangerous than the corona virus. Researchers from the foreign news agency 'AP' South Africa had identified  Omicron  a few days ago and there is not much information about it yet. It is too early to say whether the virus is contagious. It is believed that the news of the spread of  Omicron  virus is spreading rapidly and many countries are hesitant as to what strategy they should adopt while Corona virus has so far killed more than 5 million people. Israel has decided to ban the entry of foreigners and Morocco has said it will suspend all incoming flights starting Monday for two weeks.  Scientists have confirmed its presence in many places from Hong Kong, Europe to North America.  There have been 13 reported cases of Omicron in the Netherlands and two eac...

At this point we bundle important Corona news from all over the world, today among others from Israel, the USA, Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Switzerland. You can find the most important figures on the corona pandemic here. You can find all developments relating to the pandemic worldwide. All articles on the subject of Sars-CoV-2 can be found on our main page. In addition to our own research, we also use material from the news agencies dpa, AP, AFP, KNA and Reuters. Omicron was discovered in South Africa in November. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the new corona variant B.1.1.529 as "worrying". The UN agency announced this after consulting with experts. According to the WHO definition, this classification is a signal that a variant is more contagious or leads to more severe disease courses. In addition, with "worrying variants" there is a risk that conventional vaccinations, medication or corona measures will be less e...