In the case of Mexico, it was detected in a South African citizen who arrived on November 21 and has the disease “Light”The Government reported that it also ruled out closing air traffic with southern Africa as the European Union (EU) did.
Its about second country in Latin America to report the presence of the Omicron variant after Brazil, which has already detected patients with this strain in São Paulo and Brasilia.
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In all the European Economic Area (EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) had been notified 109 cases until this Friday, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
On USA Ten cases of this new variant were confirmed, two of which corresponded to patients who had not traveled abroad. A piece of information that indicates that broadcasts are local too.
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Although Ómicron generated an avalanche of measures in a world tired for two years of a pandemic that has already left more than 5.2 million dead, WHO clarified that so far it has no record of deaths related to. “I have not seen any information on deaths linked to Omicron,” said the spokesman for the UN health agency, Christian Lindmeier, at a press conference in Geneva reproduced by the AFP news agency.
But taking into account that many countries increase their tests to try to detect the new variant, “We will have insurance more cases, more information and, hopefully not, possibly deceased”added.
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The WHO considers that the probability that Ómicron will spread throughout the world is “high” although there are many unknowns about its dangerousness and its transmissibility compared to other variants such as Delta, which is currently the one that causes about 90% of positives on the planet.
It is this strain that is generating, for example, the fourth wave of infections in Germany, which this Friday reported that it exceeded six million cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic after adding almost 75,000 infected in the last 24 hours.
The Government of Angela Merkel, who next week and after 16 years leaves power so that Olaf Scholz assumes as Chancellor, confirmed this Thursday that it will tighten the restrictions for the unimmunized and also plans to present in Parliament a project to make vaccination mandatory, as implemented by Austria from February.
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In the same line, Czech Republic announced this Friday that it is preparing a decree, which is expected to be approved next week, to make mandatory inoculation against coronavirus for certain population groups, like doctors or policemen.
Belgium He also reported new measures to contain the advance of the pandemic: Christmas holidays for kindergartens and elementary schools will start a week earlier than planned and the mandatory use of the chinstrap was extended in public transport for children from six years of age.
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Beyond the fact that Delta is predominant, the alarms were reignited with Omicron. While recent notifications indicate that this variant was already circulating in Europe, before Botswana and South Africa reported their finding by sequencing the virus genome, southern Africa is the region that is suffering the greatest consequences with international isolation.
In that macro, the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, denounced that his country suffers a kind of “health apartheid” by travel bans. The president also urged the countries that implemented this type of measure to “urgently reconsider your decision” and “lift these restrictions” as they will cause great damage to the economy of the country and the whole of southern Africa, according to the South African news portal News24.
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In addition, along with his counterpart from Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, stressed the need for democratize vaccines so that the world population, including the African population, has access to the doses to fight against the advance of the pandemic.
The Red Cross made the same exhortation, highlighting that the rise of Ómicron is the “latest proof” of the danger of inequalities in immunization around the world.
According to UN statistics, about 65% of the inhabitants of the most developed countries received at least one dose of vaccines against Covid-19, compared to only 7% in the least developed.
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“Scientists warned the international community several times of the risk of the appearance of very new variants in places where the vaccination rate is very low”, said Francesco Rocca, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
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