US Reopens Omicron Variant Vaccination Centers | News

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Faced with the rebound of the pandemic in the United States due to the Omicron variant, several cities in the country have chosen to reopen vaccination centers to face the new wave of the coronavirus.

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The US closed the week with more than 900,000 infections and around 2,000 deaths from the coronavirus.

According to the country's health authorities, 95 percent of the new cases of Covid-19 correspond to the Omicron variant, which in the last weeks of 2021 became the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the country.



Faced with this situation, the authorities of several states of the country reopened massive vaccination centers in stadiums, shopping centers and other large surfaces used at the beginning of the immunization campaign, in an attempt to improve the protection of the population against the rapid advance of Ómicron. .

In the northeastern US states where the variant has attacked most strongly they were the first to announce the reopening of vaccination centers.

Record of cases in New York

The state of New York registered 90,132 cases of covid-19 on Friday, marking a new record since the outbreak of the pandemic.



Local health authorities indicated that after reaching a record high on January 1, infections had decreased in recent days, but in the last hours they increased significantly again.

With the updated figures, the state of New York has accumulated more than four million cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.

At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, this entity was among the worst hit in the United States at the beginning of the crisis and it is now again with the Omicron variant.

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