More than 5O % of Europeans to be infected with Omicron within 6-8 weeks

More than 5O % of Europeans to be infected with Omicron within 6-8 weeks
AFP
Tuesday 11 January 2022 - 12:30

More than half of Europe’s population is expected to be infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 over the next six to eight weeks, said the World Health Organization’s top Europe official, on Tuesday.

World Health Organization said that 27 million cases of Covid-19 were recorded in Europe in the first week of 2022 alone, WHO’s Europe director Hans Kluge told journalists in a press briefing.

In the US, a Reuters tally showed the United States reported 1.35 million new coronavirus infections on Monday.

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