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Alcatraz, the infamous former island prison off San Francisco, will reopen its outdoor areas to the public next week after being closed for five months because of the pandemic.
The Omicron variant features as such for the first time in the overview of WHO's weekly operational update, namely "Supporting Omicron variant detection and COVID-19 response in southern Africa." As of 2 December, Botswana and South Africa have reported 19 and 172 Omicron variant cases, respectively, accounting for 62% of global cases.
In May 2022, a preprint indicated Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 could cause a large share of COVID-19 reinfections, beyond the increase of reinfections caused by the Omicron lineage, even for people who were infected by Omicron BA.1 due to increases in immune evasion, especially for the unvaccinated. However, the observed escape of BA.4 and ...
The spread of the JN.1 Omicron variant has led to a surge of COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, resulting in 400 hospitalisations per week and 25 deaths. [340] The JN.1 variant accounted for 14% of sequenced cases reported in New Zealand during the week leading up to 15 December.
Around 8,000 flights were canceled globally over the holiday weekend, with airlines blaming travel chaos on winter storms and the omicron variant. A nightmare after Christmas: Omicron outbreak ...
As strained U.S. hospitals brace for a new surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the fast-spreading omicron variant, doctors are warning of yet another challenge: the two standard drugs they’ve used ...
These effects have persisted as US deaths due to COVID-19 in 2021 exceeded those in 2020. [362] In the United States, COVID-19 vaccines became available under emergency use in December 2020, beginning the national vaccination programme. The first COVID-19 vaccine was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration on 23 August 2021. [363]
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is much less likely to cause hospitalization and death than the earlier Delta variant, a study released by the CDC finds, confirming predictions some ...