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Omicron threatens the Olympics, Beijing takes cover – Foreign

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Rome, 10 January 2022 – Le Omicron shadows on Beijing 2022 Olympics, provided for in February. China’s long-feared nightmare over the upcoming Winter Games, more than the diplomatic boycott, has taken shape with the confirmation of two other cases of the most insidious of the Covid-19 variants, connected to the first internal outbreak discovered in Tianjin, at the gates of the capital.

China

A beyond 400 kilometers away, the new infections have been ascertained ad Anyang, in Henan, one of which related to a university student who returned from Tianjin on December 28th. Compared to the Delta variant, Omicron has proven to be an even bigger challenge for the Communist leadership’s ‘zero Covid policy’: it spreads faster and is more difficult to detect due to the lower viral load. For this reason, despite the tests on the 14 million residents of the port city of Tianjin concluded in just 48 hours, new surprises have been put into the account for the immediate future with already 76 thousand people in quarantine.

The tabloid Global Times has estimated 100,000 regular commuters commuting daily between the two cities for business purposes based on 2020 data – a potential pandemic bomb against which Beijing has raised its alert and defenses. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control advised residents of the capital not to visit Tianjin, urging work from home.

From Sunday evening, train tickets between the two cities about 150 kilometers away can no longer be purchased online, while flights and bus services a Tianjin have been blocked, closed schools and universities. The Center also ordered people arriving in Beijing since December 23 to report to residential communities, employers or hotels for health monitoring and Covid testing, as well as self-isolation at home for those arriving from high-risk areas. . The port city reported at least 40 positive cases over the weekend, including 24 children: so far, 29 residential communities are under strict isolation. Zhong Nanshan, the country’s most famous epidemiologist, expressed optimism at a forum over the weekend: China, with over 83% of the population vaccinated against Covid, “has theoretically achieved herd immunity”.

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Usa

I am 132,646 Covid patients hospitalized in hospitals in the United States, never so many since the outbreak of the pandemic. Local health authorities report this, while the particularly contagious Omicron variant has caused the number of cases and hospitalizations to jump since the end of December. Only in January last year there was a similar, but lower, number of hospitalized Covid patients, 132,051. There Omicron is the dominant variant in the United States, where it passed the Delta.

Israel

The Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly in Israel, which has experienced a another record of cases, 32 thousand infections daily, a figure that practically doubles the record of almost 17 thousand infections last Friday. The data confirms the rapid increase in cases in the country, which has about 9.4 million inhabitants and which for now has not adopted severe restrictions to stop its fifth wave of infections. Also the number of people seriously infected in hospitals, now about 222, it has doubled within a week, despite the health centers not collapsing and still having the capacity to welcome critically ill patients. But this morning the anti-Covid ‘czar’, Salman Zarka, said that if
Should Israel reach 600 severe patients in hospital, the country could having to impose a new lockdown. “Light restrictions do not help. What will help – he explained – is a lockdown significativo with a limit of “movement of no more” of 150 meters from home “.” I hope we do not get there – he added – but if there is no choice we will have to put this on the table “.

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France

In the last 24 in France there have been 93,896 new cases Covid-19, with a positive swab rate of 19.9%. This was reported by the French health authorities, who previously reported 281 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Sweden

New squeeze anti-Covid in Sweden, after the rapid increase in cases in recent days. “The situation has undoubtedly deteriorated. The level of infections is at an all-time high”, explained Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. The measures provide for thesmart working obligation in all cases where it is possible and limits the number of participants in public events. Also expected a curfew at 11pm for restaurants, where the tables can be a maximum of eight people. The restrictions are expected to remain in place for a month, although they will be re-evaluated in two weeks based on the epidemiological situation. In recent days, the sovereigns of Sweden, King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia, and their daughter Princess Victoria had also tested positive.

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