EU to decide on new COVID jab as Omicron rages

The UK reported 82,886 cases on Sunday as the new variant rages, with the highest number of infections in London.

The European Medicines Agency said its human medicines committee would hold an extraordinary meeting to decide on Novavax on Monday, and"will communicate the outcome".

Noting that in South Africa, while the hospitalisation-to-case ratio is lower than with Delta, this could be due to underlying immunity from widespread previous infections. While a little more than 70 percent of the US population has had at least one shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another 50 million eligible people remain unprotected, Fauci said.

An employee moves coffins, some marked with "infection risk" as others have "corona" scrawled in chalk, in the mourning hall of the crematorium in Meissen, eastern Germany"If the spread of the Omicron variant in Germany continues as it has done so far, a significant part of the population will fall sick and/or will go into quarantine simultaneously," a report by the 19-member panel said.

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