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The British government, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven, announced on Sunday that it would hold an “emergency meeting” of the group’s health ministers the next day to address the issue of the coronavirus Omicron variant. • Read also: Omicron variant: WHO calls to ‘keep borders open’ • Read also: Omicron: All passenger flights to Morocco suspended for two weeks The British Ministry of Health announced that the health ministers of France, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom will meet “on Monday, November 29 to discuss the development of the…

Dutch health authorities announced on Sunday that 13 passengers who departed South Africa and were diagnosed with COVID-19 upon arrival in Amsterdam on Friday are carriers of the Omicron variant. • Read also: Netherlands: Omicron variant ‘probably’ among 61 positive passengers • Read also: Variable Omicron is spread all over the planet “The Omicron variant has so far been identified in 13 positive tests. But the investigation is not over yet. The new variant can be found in other samples,” the National Institute of Public Health (RIVM) said in a statement. The results of the test of 61 passengers from…

Of the two cases of the Omicron variant detected in Hong Kong on Friday, one was a traveler from Canada. In the face of the emergence of this worrying new form around the world, countries are intensifying restrictions at their borders. Posted on November 27, 2021 at 7:29 pm Lila Dussault Journalism Reuters reported Friday in Hong Kong that a South African traveler has tested positive for the B.1.1.529 variant called Omicron. Another traveler, who came to him from Canada, also tested positive while in quarantine in a hotel room opposite the South African traveler’s room. A spokesman for the…

The Dutch health authorities said, on Saturday, that the Omicron variant “probably” caused COVID-19 contamination of some of the 61 South African passengers who tested positive after arriving in the Netherlands on Friday. • Read also: US: Seven doctors promoting fake treatment for COVID-19 tested positive • Read also: Germany: First suspected case of Omicron . variant detected “It is likely that an Omicron variant will be found among those tested,” the National Institute of Public Health (RIVM) said in a statement, adding that it “will be determined whether an Omicron variant was involved” after further analysis, the results of…

The Dutch health authority said on Saturday that 61 passengers from two South African flights had tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Amsterdam, which is analyzing the results of the new variant. • Read also: Germany: First suspected case of Omicron . variant detected • Read also: The alternative that frightens many countries “We now know that 61 of the results were positive and 531 negative,” the Dutch health authority (GGD) announced, adding that passengers who tested positive for the virus were quarantined at a hotel near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The tested passengers arrived in Amsterdam on Friday. Those…

The US presidential couple traveled to Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, to celebrate Thanksgiving. A family tradition, a presidential version. Since Tuesday, Joe and Jill Biden Found on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, sometimes Thanksgiving long weekend. The presidential couple headed, Thursday, the American holiday, to a military barracks on the island, to meet with the Coast Guard and talk via video link with soldiers stationed in Kuwait, in the Persian Gulf or in the East China Sea. Monday, the eve of their departure from the White House, They had attended Thanksgiving dinner early with soldiers and military families Deployed overseas at Fort Bragg…

‘Horror movie’, shocking like none at sea in 21 years: Carl McEwengen, the fisherman who gave a warning Wednesday about the English Channel’s worst immigration drama, is still haunted by images of the floating corpses of outcasts. “Seeing so many dead people like these next to us, it really is a horror movie,” he tells some journalists that the fisherman, who had just disembarked, in the middle of the night from Thursday to Friday, from the fishing vessel he was working on at the second, in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer (North) . • Read also: 27 migrants die in shipwreck…

The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the highly contagious delta variant had reduced the effectiveness of vaccines against disease transmission by 40%, and urged people to continue wearing masks and other barrier practices. • Read also: [EN IMAGES] Vaccination of children: everything is being done to reassure them • Read also: Childhood vaccination: concerns and relief for parents “Vaccines save lives, but they do not completely prevent transmission of COVID-19,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained during a regular press conference dedicated to the pandemic, which is wreaking havoc in Europe. Listen to journalist Alexandre Duby with…

Now it is the turn of Quebecers who have received two doses of the AstraZeneca or Covishield vaccine to make an appointment in Click Health to get their anabolic dose. • Read also: Janssen vaccine authorized again in the country • Read also: Three weeks to vaccinate a maximum of children aged 5 to 11 years 3NS The dose to be taken will be from the messenger RNA vaccine, either from Pfizer or Moderna. The booster dose for 164,458 Quebecers who received AstraZeneca or Covishield viral vector serum is not mandatory, but is offered to those concerned who wish to…

A new type of COVID-19, whose large number of mutations could threaten the efficacy of current vaccines, has been detected in South Africa, scientists said Thursday. “Unfortunately, we have discovered a new species of concern in South Africa,” virologist Tulio de Oliveira said in an online press conference. The B.1.1.529 variant has an “extremely high” number of mutations, according to the South African scientists who previously discovered the infectious beta variant. At this point, scientists aren’t sure how effective the COVID vaccines will be against this new form of the virus. The emergence of this variable is undoubtedly the origin…