Latest on the global Covid crisis: 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Omicron may dip rapidly in US, UK 🇨🇦 Canada's Quebec to tax unvaccinated people 🇪🇸 Spain marks highest Covid deaths since March For more:
Omicron variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect. Scientists are seeing signals that Covid-19's alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the US, at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.
And weeks or months of misery still lie ahead for patients and overwhelmed hospitals even if the drop-off comes to pass.Spain has recorded its highest number of coronavirus-related deaths since March with 247 in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry has said. At the same time, the EMA raised concerns on the necessity of regularly repeating booster doses due to the omicron variant.The Canadian province of Quebec, struggling to control the Omicron variant, will impose a new health tax in the coming weeks on those who are not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Speaking to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the top US scientist said eliminating Covid was unrealistic and that "Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody."
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