The official number of cases of Covid-19, which is definitely lower than the real one, exceeded the limit of 300 million today, Friday, while the countries are fighting the spread of the Omicron variant and escalating the vaccination campaigns.
According to the French Agency based on official reports, at least 300,042,439 cases have been diagnosed since the World Health Organization office in China reported the outbreak in late December 2019.
Almost two weeks after the discovery of the Omicron variant in Botswana and South Africa, cases began to increase worldwide. The entire planet is now facing a fourth wave and a record number of recorded infections.
Acceleration of infections is not currently accompanied by an overall increase in deaths.
In the United States, the Supreme Court is expected to rule within a day on the mandatory vaccination of millions of workers.
After months of trying to persuade the reluctant, President Joe Biden announced in September that he wanted to make vaccination mandatory, especially in companies with more than 100 employees.
In the country of individual liberties, these measures have been denounced by Republican lawmakers, who see it as a misuse of power by the federal state and by a section of the business world that deems it counterproductive.
The Covid-19 “as we know it today will not be here forever, at least in its current form,” Biden promised today. “But having Covid in our environment and on our planet, that will probably continue,” he admitted.
– Great Hindu festival –
In India, a court has rejected a request to cancel a major Hindu festival, despite fears that the rally could spread the epidemic to a country plagued by outbreaks of the Omicron variant.
Hundreds of thousands of people will gather on Saturday at the confluence of the Ganges and the Gulf of Bengal during the Gangasagar Mela festival to take a bath on the occasion of Makar Sankradi, a sacred day in the Hindu calendar.
A doctor in Calcutta had asked for a court decision to ban the festival due to the health situation.
The number of new cases in India exceeded 100,000 on Friday and the authorities in several large cities imposed restrictions in order to slow down the spread of the virus.
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