"Serious threat"! British Omicron added more than 10000 for two consecutive days! The mutant spread

Original title: "serious threat"! British Omicron added more than 10000 for two consecutive days! The mutant spread to 89 countries and regions. Fudge: the degree of mutation is unprecedented
Edited by: Peng Shuiping
Novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed 82886 cases in the country, and 11361387 cases were diagnosed as a result, according to CCTV news, 19 local time. There were 45 new deaths. Among them, 12133 new cases of Omicron infection were added within 24 hours, raising the cumulative number of cases of Omicron infection in the country to 37101.
Data released by the British government on the 18th showed that there were 90418 newly confirmed cases in a single day, including 10059 cases infected with Omicron virus.
The British government emergency Science Advisory Group said on the 18 day that every day, England may add one hundred thousand cases of variation to COVID-19's infection. British Prime Minister Johnson said recently that the Omicron strain has become a "very serious threat" to Britain.

Source: Xinhua News Agency
Fudge: the mutation degree of Omicron mutant is unprecedented
According to Xinhua news agency, the World Health Organization reported on the 18th that 89 countries and regions around the world have reported cases of infection with the new crown variant strain Omicron; In areas with community-based transmission cases, the virus spread at a rate of "doubling the number of cases in one and a half to three days".
The who said that Omicron spread rapidly in countries and regions with a high proportion of vaccinated population, but it is unclear whether this phenomenon is because the strain naturally has stronger immune escape ability, stronger infectivity, or both.
According to CCTV news, on December 19th, Anthony Foch, chief medical adviser of the White House, said in his "state of the union" program that although officials expected that there would be a new COVID-19 variant strain, it was not expected that the mutation degree of the mutant strain was much larger. Fudge said that the degree of mutation of amino acid substitutes in the mutant strain Omicron was unprecedented.
Source: CCTV news
Fudge pointed out that if the virus has enough time to replicate, it will mutate and sometimes produce new mutant strains. When the new crown vaccine is faced with the mutant strain Omicron, the protection to human body will be significantly reduced. Therefore, people need to vaccinate the new crown vaccine to strengthen the needle to recover the protection ability of the vaccine to human body.
Many countries and regions around the world are ready
At present, many European countries and regions have tightened epidemic prevention measures.
London mayor Sadik Khan said on the 18th that Omicron has become the main mutant strain spreading in London. Novel coronavirus pneumonia cases have been diagnosed in London over 26 thousand cases in the past 24 hours, the highest ever since the outbreak. Sadik Khan announced on the same day that London had entered a state of "major events". The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said that generally speaking, the government will declare the area as a "major event" only when an influential event occurs and the police and emergency departments need to act at the same time.
The Netherlands reacted most strongly to the Omicron strain. According to CNN, Dutch Prime Minister mark lute said that the Netherlands may be ushering in the fifth wave of epidemic, so he ordered a comprehensive blockade until January next year.
On the evening of December 18 local time, the Dutch government announced that from December 19, all "unnecessary" public places such as restaurants, bars, gyms, barbershops, cinemas, playgrounds and zoos will be closed, and restaurants can only provide takeout services. Supermarkets, pharmacies and gas stations can be open until 20 o'clock. All primary and secondary schools will be closed until January 9, 2022.
In addition to Britain and the Netherlands, epidemic prevention measures in other European countries have become more stringent.
On December 18, France announced to cancel the fireworks show and other celebrations originally scheduled to be held in the Champs Elysees on New Year's Eve. On the same day, Germany held a special meeting of federal and state health ministers. The meeting decided to further tighten entry epidemic prevention measures and implement stricter control over immigrants from South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries and regions. Denmark closed theaters, concert halls, amusement parks and museums.
According to the comprehensive report of China new net, COVID-19 has been in the dark for two years. The United States is facing another dark winter. One disaster after another is the rapid increase of cases and the situation is already dangerous. U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver a speech focusing on the Omicron variant on the 21st. The variant continues to spread rapidly in the United States and elsewhere.
Source: daily economic news, comprehensive CCTV news, Xinhua news agency, chinanews.com
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