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The World Health Organisation warned today that half of Europe's demographics will have fallen victim to Omicron by the end of next month.
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Omicron's ultra-high transmissibility has occupied the foreground of science news since December last year.
While scientists haven't been hemming and hawing when it comes to contending with the aggravating situation, the World Health Organisation adjudged today that half of Europe's population will have been infected with Omicron by the end of February.
The cogent opinion came as the WHO's Regional Director for Europe opined that European and Central Asian countries are suffering the brunt of the crisis as the virus is running amuck in the region.
In Britain, new COVID-19 cases have dropped to around 140,000 per day last week after ballooning to more than 200,000 a day earlier this month. The figures have raised hopes that both Southern Africa and Britain are apt to undergo a significant decrease in COVID infections.
British authorities have decided to adopt minimal restrictions against Omicron, which is deemed less deadly than previous variants, albeit more contagious. No additional anti-virus measures are in the cards thus far, which is expected to open the door to a bumpier ride for the country.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization reported 7 million new COVID cases across Europe in the past week, describing the spate of new infections as a dead weight.
Many governments worldwide are going all the way back to square one to amp up their bulwark against COVID-19 as infections soared.
Be that as it may, some scientists are suggesting some countries' eclectic live-with-the-virus approach may pay dividends, which is a benison despite the fact that it is indeed inimical to those most susceptible to the virus and it precipitated a new Omicron outbreak.
The situation is not expected to be on an even keel for some time as the war of attrition between the deadly virus and the world persists.
Having said that, with a lack of human beings to infect, COVID becoming an endemic remains not the most, but one plausible scenario.
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