The seven-day average of newly reported Covid-19 infections in the U.S. is on track to triple the pre-Omicron record set a year ago, when America saw a quarter million daily cases
Germany, meanwhile, said it wants to draw up a list of rapid antigen tests that are particularly good at detecting early Omicron infections, after doubts arose aboutHealth Minister Karl Lauterbach said on public television Sunday night that he had asked the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the government’s vaccine agency, to identify those rapid tests that can be relied on to identify Omicron infections early.
The seven-day average for newly reported cases in the U.S. topped 700,000 for the first time Saturday, data from Johns Hopkins University show, as the highly infectious Omicron variant spreads throughout the country. The numbers reported by state health departments and collected by Johns Hopkins also likely reflect a fraction of the true number, due in part to Omicron’s rapid spread and the difficulty many Americans have had getting tested.
Michael Gove, the minister for housing and communities, told Sky News on Monday that the tests would remain free for “as long as we need,” without specifying how long that would be. The U.K. government is stepping up a campaign to encourage pregnant women to get the Covid-19 vaccine after it was found that 96% of pregnant women admitted to hospitals with Covid-19 between May and October last year were unvaccinated.
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