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Regulators are also considering whether to approve the Moderna vaccine for this age group. The rollout will initially use two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, eight weeks apart. The vast majority of the participants were vaccinated with two doses of mRNA vaccine.Īustralia will start vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 against covid-19 in January, prime minister Scott Morrison has said. Genetic sequencing has confirmed 17 of those cases as being linked to the omicron variant, and the researchers think it is likely that most of the others are also infected with omicron. “If omicron in the UK combines increased transmissibility and immune escape, irrespective of severity, it is highly likely that very stringent measures would be required to control growth and keep R below 1,” the report said.Īt a Christmas party in Oslo, Norway, 80 out of 111 people who attended were subsequently diagnosed with covid-19, according to a report by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. “We’re getting large numbers of cases and that will result in a large number of hospitalisations and, unfortunately, it will result in a large number of deaths, I’m pretty sure of that.”Ī report from SPI-M-O, a modelling group advising the UK government, says if the characteristics of omicron estimated from South Africa apply in the UK, there is the potential for a peak of infections much larger than the one seen in January 2021. “I think over the next two months, we’re going to see a really rather large wave of omicron,” he said at a Royal Society of Medicine briefing. John Edmunds of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), said that sequencing suggested omicron had been around since mid-October and the variant may be spreading even faster in the UK than it is in South Africa, where it was first detected. The UK is going to see a large wave of omicron cases and deaths in the next few months, a scientist advising the government has said.
Omicron variant may be spreading faster in UK than in South Africa By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu and Layal LiverpoolĬommuters make their way across London Bridge on 9 December, 2021 in London, EnglandĬhris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 11am on 10 December
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