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Normal life is slowly returning in many countries around the world

The US switched to tracking the number of hospital admissions, rather than the number of new COVID-19 cases. Photo: Reuters

America continues to be the leading country in the number of cases COVID-19 with 81,621,888 cases, including 1,003,467 deaths. Over the weekend, Hawaii was the last state to relax restrictions. Accordingly, the state has lifted the requirement to wear masks indoors and restrictions on movement during the pandemic. The state of Hawaii also suspended its safe travel program, which requires visitors to self-isolate and provide confirmation of vaccinations or testing. Thus, all US states have now lifted epidemic prevention regulations. However, the country’s health authorities are still carefully monitoring the disease development related to the appearance of the BA.2 subline of the Omicron variant, which is believed to be more contagious than the original.

The normal pace of life is also gradually returning to people in many countries around the world. Prime Minister Cambodia Samdech Techo Hun Sen on March 28 once again affirmed that Cambodians can celebrate the Khmer traditional New Year in mid-April after two years of the COVID-19 outbreak. The situation of COVID-19 epidemic in Cambodia seems to have calmed down as the number of new cases tends to go down. On March 28, the Ministry of Health of this country announced that it had detected only 54 new infections (all infected with the Omicron variant) and no deaths. However, Cambodian officials warn that a hybrid variant between Omicron and Delta, called Deltacron, has appeared on the Thai border and is at risk of entering the country following the influx of workers from Thailand returning home to celebrate Tet. Traditional Khmer next month.

In China, Shenzhen city officials on March 27 announced that the locality had resumed work and production as usual, and eased restrictions on eating and drinking at indoor locations. Meanwhile, the Shanghai city government announced a partial blockade from March 28 to serve the deployment of COVID-19 testing throughout the city. Officials affirmed that the above measures are aimed at limiting the spread of the virus, protecting people’s health and life, and achieving the goal of bringing the number of cases in the community to zero as soon as possible.

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Testing for SARS-CoV-2 virus in Korea. Photo: AP

In South Korea, the number of new COVID-19 cases on March 28 fell below the threshold of 200,000 for the first time in 25 days, a sign that the peak of the wave of Omicron variant infections has passed. Speaking at a meeting on the same day, South Korea’s Health and Welfare Minister Kwon Deok-cheol said the wave of infections peaked last week and has now turned to a downward trend after 11 weeks.

Still at Jordan, the country’s government has allowed indoor and outdoor mass gatherings of any kind. In outdoor locations, people are no longer required to wear masks. In addition, people were able to pray at mosques and other places of worship.

In Brother, expert Paul Hunter, professor of infectious diseases at the University of East Anglia, said that the wave of Omicron variant infections in this country has peaked and is likely to gradually cool down in the following weeks. Professor Hunter said that the BA.2 sublinear variant of Omicron is weakening in the community, but in the immediate future, COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths may continue to increase.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that in England and Wales 1 in 16 people is positive for the BA.2 subvariant, and in Scotland 1 in 11 people positive. However, according to Professor Hunter, the number of cases since mid-March and the infection rate have more than halved. He believes that the epidemic trend in the UK will be similar to that in Denmark and the Netherlands – where the number of BA.2 infections has decreased after peaking. However, the number of COVID-19 cases will continue to increase among the elderly, although the rate may decrease compared to before.

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