While the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has been detected in several countries of the Union, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Commission, calls on European citizens to have their vaccination recalled within three weeks to stop its spread.
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Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium: the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus has already been detected in several European countries and in France and is spreading like wildfire. After deciding to suspend air links with southern Africa, the European Union is on a war footing to fight against omicron and believes that a race against time has started.
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According to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to determine the consequences of mutations in omicron, scientists and laboratories need two to three weeks.
“We really need to use this time frame because there are precautionary measures we can take. First and foremost, the highest priority is to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate: booster, booster, booster, as much as possible!”
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“This vaccination booster raises the level of antibodies and stimulates the memory cells for Covid-19 so it is the police of the immune system that you are strengthening during this time”, she insists. Last summer, the European Commission signed a contract with BioNTech-Pfizer for 1.8 billion doses of its coronavirus vaccine. And a clause in that contract states that if a variant goes out of control, the lab will have to be able to adapt its vaccine within a hundred days.