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The World Health Organization said it is too early to consider Covid an 'endemic' virus - since it is not settling into a stable and predictive transmission (Photo: World Bank / Henitsoa Rafalia)

WHO: Omicron to infect over half of Europeans in two months

Omicron represents "a new west-to-east tidal wave" that is likely to infect more than half of the population living in Europe within the next two months, increasing the burden on healthcare systems across the continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday (11 January).

Omicron, first identified in South Africa in November, is quickly becoming the dominant variant in western Europe and is now also spreading in the Balkans.

The rate of infections in the first week...

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

The World Health Organization said it is too early to consider Covid an 'endemic' virus - since it is not settling into a stable and predictive transmission (Photo: World Bank / Henitsoa Rafalia)

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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