French Guiana impacted by the presence of the Omicron variant

on December 29, more than about a month after the appearance of a new variant in South Africa, the regional health agency of Guyana alerted to the presence of around twenty cases of the Omicron variant. At the beginning of January this variant had supplanted the Delta variant in Guyana, where a third of the population received a dose of the vaccine.

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If Omicron raises fears of a risk of saturation of Guyanese hospitals, it is already seriously disrupting the economy of the department. Inexorably affected by the contagiousness of this variant, customers and employees are becoming rare, and these absences would now affect almost all sectors of activity. A report by Olivier Damone.

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