My friend's son lives in Denmark and has sent over some notes from today's Danish government press conference (not word for word)...
Omicron) ...it’s too late. The rate is too high and there’s no way we can stop it. It’s run away.
It will take an extreme amount of effort for each person to avoid getting infected over the winter and it’s almost inevitable.
Social distancing and hand sanitiser will not be enough.
All we can do is get vaccinated to reduce the likelihood of infection and of severe illness and protect those who are most vulnerable.
Getting vaccinated no longer means you’re unlikely to get covid. Omicron seems to be much more contagious and that vaccinated people will still get it. But the symptoms are generally much milder in vaccinated people.
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On the other hand Netherlands has a different strategy and is locking down from tomorrow. Both these countries are ten to fifteen days behind the UK in the Omicron trajectory. Morocco did well by suspending ALL foreign flights on 29 November.
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