“In Britain there could be about a million Omicron cases within a month.” This was stated by Health Minister Sajid Javid speaking to Sky News. “Compared to this new variant, our strategy has been to buy time to evaluate it and also to build protective defenses,” he said, explaining that in the last few days we started to know more about the variant that “spreads very quickly, faster of any other consequences of Covid that we have seen so far ». However, Javid has again ruled out the introduction of mandatory vaccination in Great Britain: “It is ethically wrong and it would not work,” he said.
The situation in Europe is clearly deteriorating. Germany records more than 70,000 new cases of Covid-19. The bulletin of the Robert Koch Institute reports 70,611 infections and another 465 deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, 6,362,232 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the country with 104,512 deaths. The average weekly incidence is 422.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, with 351,148 infections ascertained in the last seven days. The active cases are about 979,400, while they are 5,278.30.
New record of infections also in France, in the past 24 hours 72 thousand have been registered, the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic. This was stated by Health Minister Olivier Veran in an interview with France 2. The previous record was 70,000 at the beginning of November. According to the minister, however, the peak of the infections of the new wave is approaching and could be reached at the end of the month. “We see a slowing down of the epidemic curve. From increases of 60% in a week we have gone to 40% and now to 25-30% “, said the minister, asking the French to” multiply their daily efforts “to deal with the pandemic.
In Russia during the last day, 30,209 new cases and 1,181 deaths caused by the disease were recorded: this was reported by the national anticoronavirus operations center, taken over by Tass. According to data from the coronavirus operations center, 9,925,806 cases of Covid-19 and 286,004 deaths caused by the disease have been ascertained in Russia since the beginning of the epidemic. The BBC reports that more than 537,000 people died in the country between April 2020 and October 2021 after the disease was confirmed or suspected, according to Russian state statistics agency Rosstat. About 146 million people live in Russia.
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