US News COVID-19: the predominant Omicron variant in South Africa, according to WHO

Coronavirus: World Concerns Faced with the new variant deemed "worrying" by WHO

Sant Coronavirus-Variant: Coronavirus: Global concerns against the new variant deemed "worrying" by WHO © Reuters / Denis Balibouse Coronavirus: Global concerns against the new variant judged "worrying" by WHO by Costas Pitas and Stephanie Nebehay London / Geneva (Reuters) - Around the world, the authorities reacted with anxiety Friday after the discovery of a new variant of Coronavirus in South Africa, pushing the European Union and Great Britain, including strengthening border controls, while

People queue for Covid - 19 tests at Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg, South Africa , on Tuesday. Origin a mystery. Just where and when Omicron first emerged is still unknown. There is no identifiable "Patient Zero," a first person known to have been infected with the variant . As the director of the For now the Delta variant remains the dominant strain, accounting for 99.8% of the global sequences uploaded to the GISAID database, according to WHO 's latest bulletin. But that bulletin also notes that " South Africa , where Omicron was first detected, has experienced a recent sharp increase in the

South Africa 's president has urged everyone to get vaccinated. The new coronavirus variant Omicron has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving a sharp increase in new infections, health officials say. Some 11,500 new Covid infections were registered in the latest daily figures. By contrast, daily infections were averaging between 200 and 300 in mid-November, a top South African scientist told the BBC. Omicron has now been detected in at least 24 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization ( WHO ). Those who have already had other variants of

© AP - GBEMIGA Olamikan A healthy professional conducts a PCR test in Abuja, Nigeria, November 29, 2021, another country where The Omicron variant was detected.

At a press conference, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave more information on the new Omicron variant that worries the entire planet.

On Wednesday, scientists WHO Africa gave details during an online conference and confirmed that the Omicron variant took the step on the other variants of the Covid-19 , particularly in South Africa.

The Omicron variant is now predominant in South Africa, confirmed the microbiologist Anne von Gottberg. It was present in 75% of sample sequencing in November and is creating a fourth wave of Covid-19 in this country, with 8,000 new cases Tuesday and probably 10,000 EC Wednesday, predicted the scientist.

Variant Omicron: singled out and shunned by Europeans, South Africa feels "punished"

© VALERY HACHE Passengers crowded on Saturday, to leave South Africa airport Johannesburg. AFP / Phill Magakoe The misty look, between frustration and relief, Valerie Leduc left the window from Johannesburg airport sesame pocket: finally a place on a return flight to Belgium, via Addis Ababa in three days. "It seemed to be criminals," says the young woman.

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Travellers from South Africa , Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini will not be able to enter the UK unless they are UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents. US officials said flights from South Africa , Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi would be The FTSE 100 index of leading UK shares closed 3.7% down, while main markets in Germany, France and the US also sank. A " variant of concern" is the World Health Organization's top category of worrying Covid variants . The decision adds weight to the mounting scientific worry about the potential of this

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What is worrying, according to it, is that the Omicron variant has a greater faculty of reinfecting people who have already had the COVID-19. Hope, however, is based on the fact that it would provoke less serious forms, considers scientists, noting that there is no major increase in hospitalizations.

Frontier closures, an "unjust" decision

Vaccination is always encouraged to protect people, especially immunocompromised persons, but also to slow the circulation of the virus that causes all these mutations. These mutations of COVID-19 could be accelerated, according to a hypothesis, among the immunocompromised populations, in particular those affected by AIDS.

Coronavirus: Israel will close its borders facing Omicron

Health-Coronavirus-Variant-Israel: Coronavirus: Israel will close its borders facing Omicron © Reuters / Ronen Zvulun Coronavirus: Israel will close its borders facing the variant OMICRON Jerusalem (Reuters) - Israel announced Saturday the prohibition of its territory to any foreign visitor for two weeks to contain the spread of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa.

Covid - 19 Vaccine Tracker. Scientists in South Africa are studying a recently identified new coronavirus variant of concern, stoking fears the country may face a potentially severe fourth wave that could spread internationally. The new discovery, called B.1.1.529 until a Greek letter is assigned to it by the World Health Organization, carries an unusually large number of mutations and is “clearly very different” from previous incarnations, Tulio de Oliveira, a bio-informatics professor who runs gene-sequencing institutions at two South African universities, said at a briefing on Thursday.

South African scientists identified the omicron COVID - 19 variant (B.1.1.529) last week. COVID affects everyone differently, but according to virus and medical experts Eat This, Not That! Omicron , first identified in South Africa last week, was designated a ' variant of concern' by WHO .

At this conference, WHO also denounced the prohibitions of traveling by some Western countries. All stakeholders believe that these measures have no scientific basis and denounce "injustice".

South Africa and Botswana pay a strong price for their efforts and effectiveness to detect the new Omicron variant. WHO scientists therefore consider that these travel prohibitions are counterproductive as they risk deterring the affected countries to declare new variants in the future.

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