Despite the reduction in cases after Christmas, the Omicron variant continues to subdue Great Britain, a region that yesterday reached its new worst maximum of almost 130 thousand cases of Covid-19, taking it to the worst foreseeable scenarios, because due to this lineage they fear a exponential rise in hospitalizations.
Just this December 27, it reported 98 thousand cases, the first time in the last week that it fell below the top of 100 thousand, but the hopeful outlook did not last long and 24 hours later the Health Security Agency (HSA) notified 129 thousand 471, a figure which could be even higher, as the new positives from Scotland and Northern Ireland are not counted, due to delays in the daily update.
That amount represents an increase of 30 percent while Ómicron establishes itself as the dominant one with a cumulative 177 thousand positives in one month.
The critical panorama is extended when reviewing the data of the income of the last week because of this new threat, since the occupation of beds by this lineage quadrupled in the last week, according to the HSA it went from 129 to 668 between the 21 and December the 28th. Meanwhile, deaths from this do not stop and now total 49, which remains the nation with the most deaths by the lineage discovered last month, since only three other governments have confirmed deaths, but only one each. in the United States, Israel and Australia.
The latest reports raise criticism of the Boris Johnson government for its refusal to tighten sanitary measures before the New Year, similar to what happened before Christmas, ensuring that the population has the measures to prevent infections. Experts have warned that, despite its mild symptoms, the occupation of beds will continue to increase not only because of that lineage but because of this virus in general, while hospitals continue to be burdened by two years of struggle and new outbreaks among their staff.
However, it is not the only nation submitted by the variant, since France, Italy and the United States also report critical figures.
The first region, despite new restrictions, added a new record with 179,807 positives in 24 hours, an increase of up to 50 percent compared to its previous maximum, last April. Meanwhile, in Italy a peak was reached with 78,300 infections, an incidence much higher than the 54,787 at Christmas, which confirms that this winter could be worse than last year as anticipated by some specialists.
Meanwhile, the US – the region with the most cases and deaths from the virus – accumulated more than 250,000 positives in the last day, still below its worst scenarios. Previously, the Centers for Respiratory Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that Omicron, found in South Africa, continues to penetrate the country and is responsible for 59 percent of new infections.
In this regard, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that hospitalization rates will increase due to the large percentages of unvaccinated people, since worldwide the 50 percent of the completely inoculated population is still not exceeded, with just 48.44 percent of the population who have already received their injections.
The agency explained that the risk of contracting this disease is much higher than Delta, since it has been identified that it can double much faster than the previous variant.
- The data: Given the transmissibility of the variant, some question the plan and the EU to reduce the period of isolation, pointing out that the risk may increase if they do not undergo medical tests.
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