1. Omikron finally arrived in Wiesbaden (reported last night). The deal is this....two school kids apparently have it (each going to a different school in the city). The city health authorities gave the order for the other for all the kids in each class to do a couple of days of quarantine, then do a PCR test today. Anyone's guess how many will test positive. How they got it? I would take an educated guess that both ride the city bus system and somewhere there....it got passed around.
2. This Covid vaccination booster (the 3rd shot) being effective on Omikron? I sat this morning and was kinda surprised. The German Health Minister, via Focus reporting.....hints that a 4th shot might be necessary....to get effective antibodies up to around 70-percent. Before this stuff.....most people were thinking after wrapping up the first/second shot deal.....they had a minimum of nine months before the booster talk would occur. While most German senior citizens were vaxed-up around Jan/Feb 2021....the average guy/gal didn't get reached until the April-through-July period.
3. More stringent ban rules coming? Well....RKI (German agency for the government that surveys numbers for the virus) did a chat about this (reported via Focus), and they suggest that the rate of decreasing numbers aren't going down fast enough. With Christmas next week.....I doubt if any big meetings will occur....but after the 26th....there's probably a meeting or two, and some federal-state situation to offer up more ban rules.
4. From sports news this morning, I noted that the England Premier League (big league soccer) has cancelled five games because teams couldn't field enough players to 'mount' a game (Omikron infection).
5. Finally, some survey was done on economic status in this Covid era. End result? Around 16.1-percent of German society is considered at the poverty level now.....an all-time high.
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