Germany sees Omicron dominant soon, pushes on vaccination

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The Omicron variant could be dominant in Germany in one to three weeks, a senior official said Wednesday, while the health minister called for vaccination centers to be kept open over the Christmas holidays to keep the country's booster campaign up to speed.

The European Union's most populous nation has seen about 540 confirmed and 1,848 suspected cases of COVID-19 infections with Omicron so far, said Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute.

"The trend is crystal-clear," Wieler said. "With a doubling time of about three days, the new variant could in the next one, two, at the latest three weeks already account for the majority of all infections in our country." Wieler called for caution before that. He said that Christmas "should not be the spark that sets off the Omicron fire" and urged Germans to meet as few people as possible. And he called for people to refrain from unnecessary travel.

Over the holiday period, "I'm asking for vaccination centers to be kept open, I'm asking for practices to be used as vaccination centers," Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said. "I think we have a unique opportunity here."

 

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Knowing the Germans track record, I think that I will pass.

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