The positivity rate rises above 100 again after the New Year’s holiday season. An eventuality? In the last 24 hours, the country has recorded 101 new cases, three admissions to New ENT Hospital and 20 admissions to the five regional hospitals combined. Vaccination has nevertheless increased, with 950,884 people receiving the first dose, 914,321 the second, and 187,553 the third/booster dose. The country also regrets the death of a 60-year-old woman admitted to ENT hospital. She had several comorbidities
What are the details and identities of these new cases? Only the sequencing will give us a better idea. However, the WHO communicated on Wednesday 05 “Although the variant is spreading like wildfire around the world, it appears to be less pathogenic than initially feared and has raised hopes that the pandemic could be overcome”, however, it also published in the AFP press release that “The multiplication of Omicron cases around the world could increase the risk of a new and more dangerous variant of Covid-19” and according to Catherine Smallwood, a WHO emergency manager, told AFP that soaring infection rates could have the opposite effect. The more Omicron spreads, the more it is transmitted and the more it replicates, the more likely it is to generate a new variant… Right now, Omicron is deadly, it can cause death… Maybe a little less than Delta, but who can say what the next variant might generate? Europe has seen more than 100 million cases of Covid since the start of the pandemic, and more than five million new cases in the last week of 2021, which “dwarfs almost anything we’ve seen so far… We’re in a very dangerous phase, with infection rates rising very significantly in Western Europe, and the real impact of that is not yet clear,” added Catherine Smallwood. She explains that while at the individual level, the risk of hospitalisation is probably lower with the Omicron variant than with Delta, overall, Omicron could pose a greater threat because of the number of cases! The situation calls for precautionary measures!
