Omicron: still far from having happened the worst, European countries "normalize" living with the virus

Despite the Tsunami of daily cases, several European countries are flexible. Con más de millón y medio de nuevos positivos cada 24 horas, el viejo continente ha resuelto que, aunque estén lejos de terminar con la pandemia, las restricciones sanitarias deberán ser relajadas.

Mientras Alemania notifica 190.148 contagios, el segundo peor dato diario de la pandemia, Rusia y Ucrania vuelven a batir un récord de positivos, o países como Italia, Francia y España estabilizan sus cifras de contaminaciones muy altas, la difícil situación de predecir si se han relajado la atención hospitalaria, provoca una ola de aperturas con la certeza que habrá que convivir con el COVID-19.

The United Kingdom was the first to delineate the new strategy.A week after ending the recommendation of Teleworking, the authorities put an end, on Thursday, January 27, to the obligation to bring masks in interior spaces in public places and to present the health pass of vaccination for events with great influx.

Aunque los casos se estabilizaron en una cifra cercana a los 100.000 diarios en los últimos 7 días, Boris Johnson se resistió a los llamados para continuar con las restricciones que estaban vigentes después de la vacaciones de fin de año. Para algunos, las decisiones se vinculan mas al escándalo político que atraviesa.However, the prime minister believes that the scenario is right: the hospitals endured, the number of fans never increased and the cases did not explode.

Pero la idea, para algunos epidemiologos desapegada de las indicaciones sanitarias, llego con una advertencia: “la pandemia no ha terminado”."Everyone must be careful," he orders from their social networks.For health authorities, beyond the debate on the origin of the determination, everything is explained when the last figures show that 64% of the population over 12 years received a third dose.

France is another case of opening that contrasts with numbers of cases never imagined before. El gobierno de Emmanuel Macron, ha indicado a su primer ministro hace días, que adelante a sus conciudadanos un cronograma de aperturas. Dejar las mascarillas, volver al consumo sin restricciones en bares, o la apertura de las discotecas el 16 de febrero, son medidas que entusiasman a los franceses, que se olvidan en parte de números de positivos que han supera el medio millar.

As against the government, the government promoted a law in Parliament for the sanitary pass to become a vaccination pass. Desde hace unos días atrás, la vida en Francia se divide entre vacunados y no vacunados. Para la mayoría de las actividades cotidianas, los habitantes del hexágono deben demostrar esquema de vacunación completa.This adds, that after 4 months of the second dose, people must demonstrate that they have applied reinforcement injection.While this happens, doctors have alerted by the growing rise as deaths, which almost 400 in a day.

With 268 additional deaths, the macabre accountant continues to add: from the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, 130.015 personas contagiadas han muerto en hospitales, residencias de ancianos u otros establecimientos médico-sociales, según cifras de Público.Health France published on Thursday.

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In Germany another is the present.The end of restrictive measures still seems a distant horizon.El País marked a new 24-hour contagios peak for Sars-COV-2, more than 200.000 cases, about 70.000 more than a week ago.

With this panorama, last Wednesday, more than forty deputies discussed the mandatory vaccine against COVID- 19 in the country.Almost two months after the new Foreign Minister, Olaf Scholz, was pronounced in favor of such a measure, the discussion is only a preface, of what will happen when the details of the bill, which was not yet revealed, are known.

Meanwhile, the increase in the number of infections has caused personnel shortage among companies.The German hospitals federation had indicated earlier this week that three quarters of the hospitals reported a number of employees with a disease superior to normal, which produced the first short circuits with the government, especially with the health portfolio.

Por el lado de España, la ministra de Sanidad, Carolina Darias, ha asegurado este viernes durante una visita a un hospital en Palma que “los datos apuntan que han doblegado la curva” de la sexta ola.

On Thursday, Health reported 130.888 new infections and added 176 dead to the official count.Meanwhile, the incidence falls to 3.139 cases per 100.000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, fourth consecutive day of descent in the country. A pesar de una alta tasa de vacunación, con el 90,7% de la población mayor de 12 años completamente vacunada, los casos de contagio se mantienen en niveles muy altos.

However, Spain has not had homogeneous health restrictions.The limitations have earned harsh political differences, not only between parties, but in the internal of the central government itself.The Region of Catalonia, one that reimponed the curfew, has decided, to put an end from Friday to the obligation to present a sanitary pass to enter bars, restaurants and sports pavilions, for considering it ineffective in the face of the great contagiosityof OMICRON.

En ese sentido, a partir de un documento presentado a la prensa catalana, el gobierno regional, justifico la medida al sostener que “una parte importante de la población vuelve a ser susceptible de infectarse con el virus” a causa de Ómicron, “independientemente de su estado vacuna o del hecho de haber contraído ya la enfermedad” .Following the Council of Experts, "consequently, decreases the effectiveness of the mandatory use of the Covid certificate".

El pasaporte sanitario está en vigor desde finales de noviembre para entrar en bares, restaurantes y sitios deportivos de esa autonomía, una región turística de 7,7 millones de habitantes. Y aunque el número de positivos sigue siendo muy alto en la región, los hospitales no están tan saturados como los modelos epidemiológicos auguraban.

Cataluña también levantó hace una semana el toque de queda que rige entre la 1 y las 6 de la mañana en Barcelona y gran parte de la región desde finales de diciembre.The only restriction that remains in force is the closure of discos.

A country that is a model for virus rake has also announced what could be said, the beginning of the end of the pandemic. En Dinamarca, la primera ministra Mette Frederiksen anunció el miércoles el levantamiento de casi todas las restricciones nacionales a partir del 1 de febrero .

The disease will no longer be considered a threat to society, the Danish authorities believe. Y esto, a pesar de los récords de contaminación batidos en los últimos días en el reino de 5,8 millones de habitantes, donde el miércoles se registraron 46.747 cases and where the incidence rate reached 4.753 cases per 100.000 inhabitants in seven days, the highest rate in Europe, ahead of France.

During an organized press conference on this issue, which dared to define as "the last", the public health authorities did not hide their optimism. “Podemos empezar a sonreír de nuevo. Estamos listos para salir de la sombra del coronavirus “, dijo Soren Brostrom, responsable de la cartera sanitaria.

Another country that unchecks the restrictions is Finland.The government also decided on Thursday to relax the measures, since the pressure on the health system decreases.As of February 1, restrictions on cultural and sports events and low -risk businesses will be more flexible.

“La carga para los hospitales sigue siendo alta, pero los casos más graves han disminuido y la situación ha mejorado en cuidados intensivos“, escribió la ministra de Salud, Hanna Sarkkinen, en un comunicado difundido en Twitter.

The Nordic nation of 5.5 million inhabitants has maintained some of the lowest incidence rates of the European Union during the pandemic, despite the fact that the number of infections has increased in recent weeks due to the OMICRON variant.From the beginning of the pandemic, Finland has registered more than 470.000 confirmed cases and just under 2.000 deaths.

Finally, Greece is another of the countries that has decided to reduce restrictive measures.As of next Monday, the opening will even give daily an average of 100 deaths, in a country with 10.7 million inhabitants.

As announced on Thursday the Minister of Health, Thanos Plevris, starting Monday the gastronomic sector will no longer be forced to close its doors at midnight and will be allowed again music in bars and discos. Plevris recalcó, sin embargo, que por ahora se mantiene vigente la prohibición de que haya clientes de pie.The capacity limits in the stadiums are also maintained, with a maximum occupation of a thousand spectators or 10% of the capacity.

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