Photo: David Young/dpa via APEven in countries with a very high rate of vaccination, such as Great Britain, Denmark and Norway, a record number of new infections is recorded. The reason for this is the highly contagious mutation of the omicron coronavirus inherited by the delta strain
Although almost 70 percent of the population has been vaccinated with at least two doses, in Great Britain on Wednesday, with 76.610 registered cases, the record of new infections in one day was broken.
The number of people infected with the new strain of coronavirus omicron rose from 4671 to 10.017.
Research team London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine he worked out different scenarios about the development of the epidemic in the following months in Britain. The optimistic forecast is that by the end of April 67, in a country with 2022 million inhabitants, 20,9 million people will be infected with omicron, that 175.000 will have to be hospitalized, and that 24.700 of them will die from the infection. The most pessimistic scenario for the same period predicts 74.800 deaths.
Experts claim that even in countries with a high quota of vaccinated people, the even more contagious micron is changing the pandemic game so far.
This is best seen in Denmark and Norway.
Although 81 percent of the population in Denmark has been vaccinated twice, the country is breaking records in the daily number of new infections. On Tuesday, there were 8314 of them.
According to the Danish state institute State Serum Institute (SSI) omicron will become the dominant variant of the virus by the end of the week.
Since Denmark tests every newly infected person on micron, it has particularly precise data. That's why Danish experts believe that in other countries the reality of omicron expansion could be similar to Denmark, or could follow very quickly.
That's why Denmark introduced more rigorous epidemiological measures last week: Bars and restaurants close at midnight from Friday, school holidays will start a week before Christmas.
In Norway, the situation is even worse. This is why an absolute ban on serving alcohol in gastronomic establishments has been introduced, work from home will be resumed.
The number of newly infected people is also growing in Sweden, which has not introduced a lockdown in any country so far.
In the south of Europe, a far smaller number of infected with omicron have been registered so far, but there are no special tests for omicron on all newly infected people like in Denmark, so it is assumed that the number is much higher.
In Spain, the number of newly infected and hospitalized people is increasing again.
Gračka was hit by the fourth wave of the pandemic in November, and the number of newly circumcised people began to decrease in the past two weeks. But the record for the number of deaths from Covid-19 was broken: 130 in one day. Cases of omicron infection have also been confirmed in Greece.
In Romania, which in recent months recorded record deaths of those infected with the coronavirus - at the end of October, more than 400 per day in a country with barely 20 million inhabitants - the situation is now better. But about 100 deaths per day and about 1000 new infections are still registered.
Hospitals in Bucharest are preparing for the fifth wave of the pandemic. In Romania, only 40 odds hundred inhabitants were vaccinated.
Only Bulgaria has a smaller number of vaccinated within the European Union.
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