A Covid variant-driven “tsunami” endangers healthcare systems, the WHO announced on Wednesday as AFP data indicated cases have risen across the world in the past week to levels never discovered before. Highly transmittable Omicron stimulated the United States, France, and Denmark to new levels on Wednesday, with AFP’s total of 6.55 million infections documented globally for seven days through Tuesday indicating the unparalleled spread. The numbers were the biggest since the World Health Organization announced a pandemic back in March 2020, intensifying the fast rate of Omicron transmission, with tens of millions of people facing a consecutive year of regulations dulling New Year’s Eve celebrations.” I am highly concerned that Omicron, being more transmissible, circulating at the same time as Delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases,” announced WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “This is and will continue to put immense pressure on exhausted health workers, and health systems on the brink of collapse,” he expanded.
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The rise of Coronavirus is presently the worst in Europe, compelling governments to walk a tightrope between compelling restrictions planned to stop hospitals from becoming overwhelmed with the cases and the requirement to keep economies and societies open two years after the virus first appeared in late 2019. Omicron is already overwhelming hospitals in the United States, reporting its highest-ever seven-day average of fresh cases at 265,427, as per the Johns Hopkins University. Harvard epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina tweeted that the count was possibly just the “tip of the iceberg” with the actual volume of cases likely far higher, because of a shortage of tests. However, the country also happens to be undergoing a decoupling between infections and drastic consequences correlated to previous waves, officials reported, as evidence accumulates of milder cases under the recent Omicron variant.
