Half of all people in Europe will be infected with Omicron within six to eight weeks, according to the World Health Organization’s Institute for Health Analysis. He said the Omicon wave was blowing from west to east over the Delta variant. Hans Klug said at a conference. He said the disease was now rampant in countries that had controlled the spread of omicron until the end of 2021.
In the first week of 2022 alone, the region reported seven million cases. The evaluation is based on that. Within two weeks, the disease had more than doubled. “Europe and the Middle East are under intense pressure as the Omikron outbreak spreads from the west to the Balkans,” he said. Said Hans Klug.
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Although the Omicron infection is not serious, it can spread very quickly and can overwhelm even those who have been vaccinated. Therefore, the spread of the disease is putting pressure on the health system. On Monday, 142,224 cases were detected in the UK. 77 deaths were recorded. Many hospitals have lost staff.
French Health Minister Oliver Veran has warned that in January, prevention and treatment will be too much for hospitals. He added that Delta sufferers were in the ICU and Omikron sufferers were usually seeking inpatient treatment. One lakh people have died of povid in Poland. The country has the sixth highest mortality rate in the world. Forty percent of the population has not yet been vaccinated. The number of Kovid cases on a daily basis in Russia had reached one lakh. Has now decreased.
Estimates, averages, and attributes of daily Kovid epidemics across the continent: BBC
Britain drops troops on hospitals
The number of Kovid patients in the UK is rising sharply. With the introduction of the Omicron variant, the number of patients in hospitals has doubled. Meanwhile, the British government has sent troops to crisis hospitals without enough doctors and nurses to care for patients. The National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in London have been shut down due to staff shortages. Kovid has assigned 200 soldiers to various hospitals in London. In addition to the 40 military doctors, the Ministry of Defense has sent 160 civilians to hospitals for the next three weeks.
With the spread of the Omicron variant, there was a severe shortage of staff in hospitals. The crisis has been exacerbated by the sharp rise in the number of Kovid patients and the fact that in many places health workers have become increasingly infected with the virus or forced to switch to isolation. In the first week of December, there were 1,100 Kovid patients in hospitals, which has now risen to 4,000. Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped the new variant would be scrapped without further restrictions. This was followed by a major crisis in the NHS hospitals in London. Last day alone, 1,79,756 Kovid cases were reported in the UK. The number of Kovid cases in the UK has crossed 12.72 lakh in the past week. Health experts say the real figure could be even higher.
Several cases in the United States as well
In the United States, more than one million Kovid patients die every day. On Monday alone, 1.13 million people were diagnosed with the disease. This is the highest number of cases per day. This is the highest daily number recorded in the United States since January 3. Kovid confirmed that number was 1.3 million that day. More than 1,35,500 people have been hospitalized with Kovid. There has also been a record increase in hospital cases. In January last year, there was a sharp increase in the number of hospital admissions. A total of 1,32,051 people were hospitalized with Kovid that day. The Associated Press reports that hospitals in the U.S. are allowing nurses and other Covid-affected workers to stay on if they have mild or no symptoms, despite the growing number of patients in hospitals.
Hospitals in France are overflowing with Kovid patients. The number of people hospitalized with covid in France rose to 22,749 from 767 on Monday. This is the highest figure since April 2021. Health Minister Olivier Veran said the Omicron variant was not dangerous but was contagious and the number of patients would increase rapidly. The situation is no different in Australia. Kovid cases crossed 10 lakh in the country on Monday. Half of this was reported last week.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that half of Europe’s people will be infected with Omicron within weeks
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