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The Covid 19 pandemic has reached yet another grim milestone in the United States. According to the John Hopkins University, the nation's cumulative death toll from the Covid 19 infections has surpassed the 900 000 mark. The latest number has been fueled by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

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The Sars-CoV-2 virus, within 20 minutes of becoming airborne, loses its ability to infect others, as per a recent study. The UK-based study suggests that the most loss occurs in the first five minutes. The findings of the study reaffirm the importance of wearing masks and maintaining social distancing. In an environment where humidity is lower than 50 percent, the virus becomes half as infectious within five seconds. In a more humid environment, the decline is significantly slower.

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Hospitalization in the US has reached a record high on Monday, with several states struggling to cope with the spike in cases. Now there were 132,000 hospitalizations for Covid, crossing the record set in January last year. But hospitalizations have been increasing steadily since late December, as the Omicron quickly took over Delta as the dominant version of the virus.

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Omicron cases continue to spread virtually as a wildfire. Australia has now said that it has surpassed the grim milestone of a million Covid 19 infections with more than half of them having been recorded in just the last week.

Australia has now surpassed the milestone of million Covid 19 infections, more than half of them recorded in last week

Australia has now surpassed the milestone of a million Covid 19 infections

The United Kingdom continues to report nearly 200,000 cases of Covid 19 infections pretty much on a day-to-day basis. But what is interesting is that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is resisting calls to impose a stringent lockdown.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resists imposing a stringent lockdown

Citing preliminary findings of a study conducted in Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said that the fourth dose of the COVID vaccine boosts antibodies fivefold a week after the shot is administered.

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Israel is also battling a surge in Covid-19 infections due to the spread of the omicron variant. The top health advisor to the Israeli government has predicted that one-third of the country's population could contract omicron in the next few weeks.

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The rapidly spreading Omicron variant is becoming a major challenge for the health authorities in Israel the healthcare system there is struggling to conduct enough Covid 19 tests.

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Israeli the healthcare system there is struggling to conduct enough Covid 19 tests

The government in France has revamped quarantine rules for the infected, and it is planning to bring in stricter restrictions for the unvaccinated starting today.

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For the first time in 64 days, India reported over 16,000 new infections in a day, and a total of 1271 omicron cases have been reported in 23 states, with the highest omicron cases detected in the state of Maharashtra with 450 cases, followed by the national capital at 320.

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