The figures are alarming If one takes into account that since the beginning of the pandemic, the United States registered only 23 days with more than 125,000 people hospitalized with Covid-19 at the same time, according to the CNN chain based on HHS data. There are currently 145,982 people hospitalized with Covid-19, roughly double the number two weeks ago.
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that hospitalization rates were about 17 times higher for unvaccinated people than for fully vaccinated people.
“There is 17 times more risk of being hospitalized, and 20 times more risk of dying, if you are not vaccinated than if you are”said the doctor Antony Fauci, White House adviser on the health crisis, during a Senate appearance.
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For its part, China on Tuesday confined the more than 5 million inhabitants of a third city to contain an outbreak of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
The authorities of the city of Anyang, in the central province of Henan, announced the measure on Monday, when they ordered residents stay at home and not circulate in private vehicles, the state agency Xinhua reported.
Anyang thus joins the million people confined since last week in Yuzhou, in the same province, and the 13 million inhabitants of the historical city of Xi’an, also in central China, which entered its third week of confinement.
The measures come on the second anniversary of the first death from Covid-19 in the country and the world.
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Who also took new measures to try to control a coronavirus outbreak driven by the Omicron variant is Japan. Since the government will last until the end of February the measures that prevent almost all arrivals from abroad and will reopen the large vaccination centers.
“Although the Omicron variant is said to have a low level of serious cases, if the number of infections increases, the number of serious cases will rise and put pressure on the health system“, assured the prime minister Fumio Kishidareported the AFP news agency.
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South America continues to face the consequences of the spread of the virus in several countries. In Brazil, more than 500 flights were canceled until this Tuesday since the end of last month for lack of crew due to the medical licenses granted as a result of the infections of the Omicron variant.
The most important impact was on the Latam and Azul airlines, as reported in official statements.
The Chilean-Brazilian Latam reported 162 flight cancellations until February, including international flights to Miami, Mexico City, Madrid and Barcelona, although not to Buenos Aires or other Argentine destinations, according to a statement sent to Télam.
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In Bolivia, the government reported this Tuesday that Vice President David Choquehuanca contracted Covid-19 for the third time. In addition there are six ministers who are also infected with the disease.
The Presidency detailed through a statement that all these authorities “They are stable and complying with the isolation protocol, performing their functions by teleworking or remote work”.
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As to Europe, Poland totaled 493 deaths from coronavirus in the last day and exceeded 100,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, just when await the arrival of the Omicron variant after being seriously hit by the Delta.
The Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, reported that there are currently 18,000 hospitalizations, so “The situation is more difficult” compared to previous waves.
In this scenario, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this Tuesday that more than 50% of the population in the European region will be infected with the Omicron variant in the next two months. “At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington predicts that more than 50% of the region’s population will have caught the Omicron variant in the next six to eight weeks“, said at a press conference the director of WHO Europe, Hans Kluge.
The WHO Europe region is made up of 53 countries and reaches as far as Central Asia. In this area 7 million new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the first week of 2022.
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In addition, WHO experts affirmed this Tuesday that the application of booster vaccines will not prevent the appearance of new variants of coronavirus and they asked improve immunizers to stop the transmission of the disease.
“A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses” of the first vaccines “has little chance of being appropriate or feasible”, indicated in a statement the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the WHO. And I add: “Vaccines against Covid-19 are needed and must be developed with a strong impact on prevention and transmission, in addition to the prevention of severe cases and deaths.”.
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