I wasn’t surprised that the lockdown didn’t end on schedule. No one I know was surprised. This is Omicron, and we saw what it did to the rest of the world. We knew it would come to China, and we knew that it would be this hard to control. The number of new infections is s...
"As we see the Omicron wave rise, I mean, sometimes you do things which just pushes the wave further out," Morrison told reporters. Meanwhile, Dominic Perrottet, premier of New South Wales, who is confronting Australia's largest outbreak, is adamant that schools in his state will stick to ...
FAW-Volkswagen in North China’s Changchun is also in trouble. Jilin province’s capital Changchun is home to one of the largest automobile manufacturing, research and development centers in China. The city was hit by a new wave of the pandemic sparked by the more contagious Omicron variant pr...
If you’ve been exposed and are vaccinated but not boosted, you need to quarantine for five days after an exposure and wear masks for another five days after that. You are still at high risk of infection, especially from the quickly spreading Omicron variant. You should wear a mask around ...
As the very infectious omicron variant of COVID-19 surges around the country, you need to know what kind of tests to take to protect yourself and your community.
The tests, while easy to do at home, are less sensitive early in an infection and work best when you are showing symptoms and have a high viral load. The darker the line is (and the quicker it appears within the minutes-long wait period), the higher your viral load and the more infe...
The movement of the bid-ask spread is classified based on its key noticeable movement within the VOC of focus’s period; i.e., prior to the staring date of the given VOC until just before the start of the next VOC (and in the case of the Omicron variant: to the end of the data...
The omicron variant was more contagious than previous strains and spread like wildfire. It sidelined many airline employees who were exposed to the virus and resulted in 4,000 flight cancellations globally on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. With the shortage of truckers and a backlog of ships ...