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The largest major global event to be held since the start of the pandemic, Expo 2020’s latest COVID-19 measures include the expansion of the number of on-site PCR testing facilities to four, and free testing for all Country Pavilion staff.
Much remains unknown about the new variant, including whether it is more contagious, as some health authorities suspect, whether it makes people more seriously ill, and whether it can thwart the vaccine.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday the first patient had died after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Sky news reported.
The authorities said that vaccines generally contribute to preventing infection and complications of disease, admission to hospitals, reducing hospital stays, and not needing ventilators compared to the unvaccinated group.
Umar said that although the situation was comparatively better now, the danger had not subsided and stressed the need for accelerating the vaccination process in the country. He warned that the areas with low percentage of vaccination would again be put under lockdown.
The country has registered 27,176 cases, pushing the total COVID-19 cases so far to 3,33,16,755, while 284 new fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
According to India's health ministry, a novel variant of the coronavirus had been detected.
As far as the coronavirus is concerned, here is a hard fact: the virus is showing no signs of going away. Covid has still got a “long, long way” to go and is “still very serious” despite some optimism the end is in sight in Europe, the World
Covid is back
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 232,307 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the UAE to 671,636.
