Labourers stand and sit in front of the closed shops at a wholesale market after authorities in the capital ordered a weekend curfew, following the rise in the coronavirus disease cases, in the old quarters of Delhi, India, January 8, 2022.Austrian chancellor says he has no Covid-19 symptoms and 'doing well'
“Thanks to the vaccine, thank goodness, I'm doing well,” he told Austrian radio in an interview. “I don't have any symptoms.” Also gone is the sense of security that stemmed from the city being virus-free, as are scores of expatriates who went back to their home countries for the holidays and now can’t return due to flight bans slapped on eight places including the U.S. and the U.K. The local economy that boomed in 2021 thanks to grounded residents spending more in the city will also take a hit as domestic curbs ramp up.
“I’ve never thought that Covid Zero was a feasible strategy,” since it’s impossible to eliminate a respiratory virus that spreads efficiently, said Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in Baltimore. “Omicron is the variant that’s really going to shatter the idea of Covid Zero for those people who are irrationally holding onto it.”Already, the tentacles of the virus are slithering through the city.
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