Cases are rising in eight major countries on the continent, with travel restrictions on the rise and some governments beginning to exclude unvaccinated people from public life
Cinemas, theatres, concert halls and other cultural venues as well as all non-essential educational facilities have been closed. Nightclubs are closed, while alcohol sales are banned after 10pm and private parties must end at 11pm.Unvaccinated Germans are banned from all but the most essential businesses such as groceries and pharmacies, while the German parliamant is weighing up a wider vaccine mandate for next year.
Omicron has been detected in 89 countries, and cases of the variant are doubling every 1.5 to three days in places where it has taken hold, the World Health Organization revealed this weekend. The two countries with the next-biggest known outbreaks of the variant are Denmark and Norway, with around 6,000 and 2,000 confirmed cases as of Thursday.Meanwhile some countries appear to still be suffering at the hands of the Delta variant, with Italy recording its highest number of daily cases in a year on Friday, 28,632, despite a relatively small number of confirmed Omicron cases .
Ireland’s case numbers have stabilised in recent weeks but are still at their highest level since January.Germany, Austria, Spain and Portugal have each identified dozens of Omicron cases and fear they will follow a similar path to the UK without new restrictions.
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