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Hope for Christmas? WHO: Omicron did not cause any deaths

Politiko 2021-12-05 11:17:00

Hope for Christmas? WHO: Omicron did not cause any deaths

The WHO has indicated that no one has died from the latest variant of Covid-19, Omicron, amid growing fears of a Christmas jam.

The new species is registered in a total of 38 countries. The US and Australia are the latest countries to report cases of the variant.

The WHO has warned that it could take weeks to determine how contagious the variant is, if it causes severe forms and how effective treatments and vaccines are.

"We will get the answers everyone needs," said WHO Director of Emergencies Michael Ryan.

The WHO said it had not yet seen any reports of Omicron-related deaths, but the spread of the new variant has led to warnings it could trigger more than half of Covid cases in Europe in the coming months.

The new option could also slow global economic recovery, as Delta did, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday.

"Even before the arrival of this new variant, we were concerned that the recovery, while continuing, is somewhat losing momentum," she said.

Meanwhile, fears of a Christmas jam have grown, with experts warning that Covid could ruin the holidays over the "next five years" until it settles into an endemic state.

But British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Christmas holidays should not be canceled. Scientists are already estimating that one in every 300 new cases is the Omicron variant.

Experts have warned that Omicron "will become dominant in the UK" especially among the unvaccinated.

Source: The Sun.

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