Category: Omicron
Norway: “The number of corona inpatients who need intensive care is higher than before, and it seems to be increasing”
“The death toll has increased week by week now… we are falling behind in the fight against infection,” said the chief physician at the University Hospital of Northern Norway, Mats Gilbert. More...
Denmark Omicron: “We have to break patient guidelines, there is nothing else we can do”
The outbreak with the corona variant Omicron is now so widespread in Viborg Municipality that the municipality can no longer stay within the Danish Agency for Patient Safety’s guidelines. More...
Denmark: ‘We have no control over the epidemic’
Viggo Andreasen, associate professor at Roskilde University who specializes in mathematical epidemiology, said he believes that the current picture shows that we have no control over the epidemic in Denmark. More...
Norway: ‘We have no control over the Omicron variant’
On Monday morning, 6th December, Norway’s assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad says that they have no control over the new variant. More...
Norway: Omicron infections rise to 120 130 in “unstoppable” Christmas superspreader event
Up to 120 people have so far been confirmed infected with corona after the Louise Restaurant, Oslo, Christmas table. More...
Denmark: 53 infected with Omicron after Christmas lunch in Viborg
A Christmas lunch with 150 guests in Viborg, Denmark, has given rise to an outbreak of infection with the new Omicron variant. More...
Norway: 42 infected in SECOND Christmas dinner superspreader event – Omicron suspected
42 people have so far been diagnosed with Covid following a Christmas dinner at Maarud on Saturday 27th November.
Preprint: Omicron is the product of extensive evolution that has left no obvious traces of intermediate forms
The Omicron variant identified in Southern Africa in late November 2021 is the product of extensive evolution within an infection context that has so far left no obvious traces of intermediate forms since it diverged from the B.1.1 lineage (presumably at some time in mid to late 2020). More...
South Africa: Tshwane District Omicron Patient Profile
There has been a significant rise in new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the Gauteng Province in the last four weeks which has been attributed to the new Omicron variant announced on 24 November 2021. More...
South Africa: Growing number of children admitted to hospitals with Omicron
South African health care workers are raising concern about the growing number of children being hospitalised with moderate to severe symptoms of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. More...