The European Council also discussed the unfortunate gift of anniversary brought by Covid-19 – omicron is spreading rapidly and is expected to become the dominant form of Covid-19 in January and additional restrictions will be in place again in many countries, TV3 News reports.
The first meeting of European Council or European Union leaders since the discovery of a new version of the coronavirus omicron took place yesterday, and it began to spread rapidly on the old continent. The initial tools used by countries to combat this type are inconsistent. For example, Italy, Greece and Ireland have introduced mandatory tests even for vaccinated travelers, which other countries have been amazed at.
France, meanwhile, has banned non-essential travel to the former bloc’s UK, which is spreading particularly fast this weekend.
Emanuels makrons
The President of France
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“We are not going to introduce tests for travelers from other European Union countries. We are all in the same room and once a particular type of virus is in one country of the European Union, it will spread quickly to others. ”
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At the meeting, bloc leaders acknowledged that new travel restrictions could emerge, but they should be harmonized and proportionate. At the same time, the European Union has ordered 180 million Pfizer-adapted vaccines for omicron.
Urzula fon the Leiena
President of the European Commission
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“We are still fighting the delta variant at this time, but we are already threatened by the omicron. It is spreading at a vicious rate, and there is even a potential risk of leakage from our current vaccines. ”
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The new strain of the virus is causing severe headaches in many European countries, where the infection is on the rise again. Greeks are already preparing for the second Christmas in the conditions of the pandemic, as the number of Covid-19 deaths is approaching new records. Shops and public events will be open here, but the unvaccinated, who are about a quarter of an adult, will find what is happening indoors. There will also be general assembly restrictions.
“I am terrible. I do not feel well. We are vaccinating, but they continue to “bend down”, says local resident Meri Antaraki.
Problems in Germany too. There, a form of omicron has already been discovered in all federal states, and there are growing concerns about a shortage of vaccines. At the same time, a new study has found that the poverty line in Germany has reached a new record due to the pandemic. The Minister of Health outlines a bleak future picture.
Karls Lauterbahs
German Minister for Health
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“I assume we have a huge fifth wave ahead of us. I am in close contact with colleagues in the United Kingdom. According to them, what has been observed about the spread of the virus surpasses anything seen during the entire pandemic. “
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Poland and the United Kingdom have also announced new restrictions in recent days Denmark, which lifted all restrictions a few months ago due to high vaccination coverage.
The ray of hope in this whole story is that relatively little is known about the omicron type. There is a possibility that, although more contagious, it may prove to be a less lethal variant of the virus.-
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