Covid-19 News and Facts from around the world.

Covering more extensively the Omicron variant impact in Hong Kong and how it is impacting its' health services infrastructure.  The government has no choice but to use 3,000 unused new apartments in public housing buildings to lodge the patients doing quarantine plus 10,000 hotel rooms. 

The latest news concerning the Omicron Variant and relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions in some countries like Denmark, Spain, Malaysia, etc.  

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Omicron all over the place. Wear your mask, indoor and outdoors. Get the booster shot and avoid as much as possible small indoor spaces. 

More information on how countries are dealing with the Omicron variants and how some other countries are relaxing their coronavirus restriccions because of the decrease in hospitalizations and number of deaths. 

This podcast goes into the rising number of cases in such countries as France, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, among others. Also the high number of new cases does not translate into high number of deaths, which thanks to the third or fourth dose of the anti Covid-19 vaccines keeps the majority of the Omicron cases from going to ICU or Urgent Care. The exception are Eastern European countries with low level of vaccination such as Bulgaria and Romania and in the United States, those counties and states that also have low percentage of people vaccinated. 

En este episodio cubro el aumento de casos por la variante Ómicron en diferentes países y como en China, apenas habra publico durante los eventos deportivos en los eventos de la Olimpiada de Invierno que comenzara el 4 de febrero. Otros países recurren al pasaporte Covid para poder frenar la ola de contagios con coronavirus, mientras otros países hacen mandatoria la vacunación y Grecia multa a los mayores de 60 años que no se hayan vacunado en enero y aumenta la cantidad de la multa mientras pasen mas meses sin vacunarse. 
También los museos del Instituto del Smithsonian han tenido que reducir el numero de días que abren debido a la baja de personal contagiados por la Covid-19. 

This podcast covers the expansion of the Omicron Variant around the world and by the increase of new cases every day in different countries, we can see how contagious this variant really. At the same time, the amount of deaths has not increase exponentially compared to the hospitalizations. 

Mas noticias sobre restricciones y avances contra la variante ómicron.