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Staffing shortages due to Omicron necessitates the temporary closure of numerous urgent care clinics in the US. [159] The Biden administration lifts a month-long travel ban on foreign national arriving via air from eight African countries—South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi—effective 12:01 a.m ...
The spread of the JN.1 Omicron variant has led to a surge of COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, resulting in 400 hospitalisations per week and 25 deaths. [340] The JN.1 variant accounted for 14% of sequenced cases reported in New Zealand during the week leading up to 15 December. [341]
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]
Since 2020, over 7 million lives have been lost to the virus, according to the World Health Organization. Social distancing, wearing masks and introducing COVID-19 vaccines led the WHO to declare ...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu report for the week of Jan. 25 showed almost 30% of lab tests for flu were positive and the rate was trending higher. There were also 16 deaths ...
After nearly two months of lab studies and real-world observations, experts have a much clearer picture of what Omicron is — and isn’t — capable of.
Hepatitis C: According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 58 million people with chronic hepatitis C, with about 1.5 million new infections occurring per year. In 2019, approximately 290,000 people died from the disease, mostly from cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (primary liver cancer). [25]
Researchers around the world are racing to fully understand the threat that Omicron poses. Compared with previous variants, does it spread more easily, cause more severe cases and have the ...