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Now playing Next world news Omicron in Europe is 'a west-to-east tidal wave', says WHO Omicron is "quickly becoming the dominant virus in western Europe and is now spreading in the Balkans", said Dr Hans Kluge, regional director for WHO Europe. 11/01/2022
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Now playing Next world news Omicron is 'killing people' and should not be called 'mild', WHO warns A record 9.5 million COVID-19 infections were reported across the world over the previous week — a 71% increase on the previous seven-day period. 07/01/2022
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Now playing Next world news COVID booster jab 'most important defence' against Omicron, WHO says Dr Kluge stressed warned last week that as Europe goes into the holiday season, it will be dealing "with two highly transmissible variants." 21/12/2021
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Now playing Next Health Omicron COVID variant appears to spread faster than Delta, WHO says The World Health Organization said that the new Omicron COVID-19 variant appears to spread faster than current variants and that vaccines could be less effective against it. 12/12/2021
Now playing Next world news WHO 'confident' current COVID-19 vaccines will work against Omicron "We have very effective vaccines that have proven to be effective against all variants so far, in terms of severity of disease and hospitalisation, and there is no reason to think that this would not be the case with Omicron," said WHO emergency manager. 08/12/2021
