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Contact tracing and testing efforts are underway after St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (STEGH) declared its first outbreak of COVID-19 on its 5th floor Acute Medicine Unit on Friday. 

St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (STEGH) has declared an outbreak of COVID-19 on the 5th floor Acute Medicine Unit after three patients tested positive for the virus.

I see people reporting that theyre positive and that surge is creating panic. when i walk outside, what i see is lines going around the block. i think what has happened, people are focused on the masks, the vaccine debates and the control measures from the past. if i look at these lines, for example, in new york city, the lines -- you have food carts in the middle of these lines just because of where theyre placed. you have subway entrances where people are coming in and out of this wall of peop...

BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- China existing prevention and control measures are effective against infection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 inside hospitals,

Need to be afraid of omicron. by applying the dynamic zero case policy and observing the prevention and control measures, unquote. china is confident in what its calling a dynamic zero covid strategy. its a strategy of throwing the entire pandemic playbook at even just a handful of cases. youve got mass testing or contact tracing, snap lockdowns, border controls, travel restrictions, et cetera. i think china is using the word "dynamic" here because it realizes it is very difficult to keep the nu...

Many scientists have already said Omicron is more transmissible and they expect it to rapidly overtake Delta as the dominant variant.

And the potential need for additional control measures, is not yet known. i think weve done the most important thing, which is accelerate boosters. in south africa, the scientists who first identified 0micron are racing to unlock its secrets. over the last week, the daily number of new covid infections has increased fourfold. it seems those who have already had other variants of coronavirus may not be protected against 0micron. hospital admissions are up slightly, mainly among the unvaccinated. ...

Thank you very much. forty two cases of the new 0micron variant of coronavirus have now been identified in the uk. it comes as new research from the university of southampton suggests booster vaccines may offer good protection against the variant. simonjones has this report. this, the government says, is the best response to the new variant. the vaccination programme, with a new drive to deliver more booster jabs. a team at the university of southampton says there are promising sign that booster...

Suggests booster vaccines may offer good protection against the variant. simonjones has this report. this, the government says, is the best response to the new variant. the vaccination programme, with a new drive to deliver more booster jabs. a team at the university of southampton says there are promising sign that boosters could handle 0micron, and would still offer good protection against illness. experts though believe its too early to say whether 0micron will be more dangerous than other va...

Is the best response to the new variant. the vaccination programme, with a new drive to deliver more booster jabs. a team at the university of southampton says there are promising signs that boosters could handle omicron, and would still offer good protection against illness. experts though believe its too early to say whether omicron will be more dangerous than other variants. we have some reason to believe it could be serious, but what that means in terms of the consequences for the pandemic, ...