Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hit President Joe Biden for being too invested in his Build Back Better agenda, which is currently stalled in the Senate, and his “failed” vaccine policy.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday emphasized the importance of getting a booster shot to be protected against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Friday reacted to President Joe Biden’s warning to the unvaccinated that “we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death” heading into the Christmas holiday.
The Chinese company Sinovac Biotech claimed on Wednesday that a third “booster” shot of its coronavirus vaccine product, “Coronavac,” would “effectively enhance the vaccine’s neutralizing capacity to the Omicron variant.”
Joe Biden raised concern about the Omicron variant of the virus, warning that it would spread quickly around the country in January.
Nearly 70 percent of Americans say the coronavirus omicron variant does not necessitate additional mandates or restrictions, a Thursday Trafalgar Group poll revealed.
Another British minister has shown themselves unable to count the number of Omicron cases in hospitals, initially overestimating the real number over 70 fold.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times claimed in a report on Tuesday that an experimental vaccine product by the small Chinese company CanSinoBIO “can provide a decent level of protection” against the Omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus.
The Washington Post reported that top federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control outlined their latest prediction models showing a large increase in cases and shared them with senior administration officials.
Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage has declared that Conservative MPs must rebel against the government during the Tuesday vote on Covid passes.
The number of people with Omicron in UK hospitals according to Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has been revised down from 250 to ten, with government officials claiming the minister had “misspoke” in earlier interviews.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus will start vaccinating kids between the ages of 5 to 11, the government said Monday in fresh bid to head off another COVID-19 surge following the first confirmed cases of the omicron variant on the eastern Mediterranean island nation.
The first four cases of the omicron coronavirus variant were reported Sunday to have been contracted among the vaccinated in Washington, DC.
Boris Johnson appeared to issue a veiled threat to citizens that failing to “get boosted” as a matter of urgency could see their “freedoms” and “way of life” taken away in an address to the nation.
Most voters do not believe there should be mandates in response to the Omicron variant, a Convention of States/Trafalgar Group survey released exclusively to Breitbart News found.
Recent data out of South Africa suggests Omicron, a new variant of the Chinese coronavirus, “causes milder disease than Delta,” World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Wednesday.
The leader of the Scottish wing of the Conservative Party has spoken out against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on vaccine passports and said he should go if he misled Parliament about an alleged lockdown-breaking Christmas party at Downing Street.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday criticized “Faucism” in the wake of the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus and promised Florida will continue to “protect your freedom to make your decisions.”
South African Dr. Angelique Coetzee — who discovered a new variant of “Covid-19,” or the Chinese coronavirus, called Omicron last month in her patients — told the Africa News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday she considered the worldwide bans on travel out of southern Africa following Omicron’s emergence “knee-jerk” and short-sighted, given the lack of information about the strain.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief White House medical adviser, said on Tuesday that the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus, which has been identified in several states, “might even be less severe” than the Delta variant, which is already widespread.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Monday defended his updated vaccine mandates — expanding to private-sector employees as well as young children — claiming that “vaccine mandates work” and that such vaccine passport programs should be emulated across the country.
An editorial in the government-owned newspaper Ghanaian Times published Monday accused President Joe Biden and other Western leaders of “mak[ing] Africa their whipping boy” by banning African travelers from entering their countries in response to the discovery of the “Omicron” variant of Chinese coronavirus.
A poll has found that the English public is accepting of certain restrictions, but that the idea of a full lockdown remains extremely unpopular.
The presidents of Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire joined South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for engagements on Wednesday and Thursday in solidarity following the imposition of a travel ban on that country by President Joe Biden and leaders of European and Middle Eastern states this week.
It took six or seven months but now everyone agrees that Bidenflation is persistent rather than transitory.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday denounced President Joe Biden’s ban on travel from southern Africa, and similar measures hastily imposed by other nations after the Omicron coronavirus outbreak, as “travel apartheid” – in other words, racist mistreatment of Africans.
COPENHAGEN (AP) – At least 50 people in and around Norway’s capital have been infected with the omicron coronavirus variant and the cases are connected to a Norwegian company’s Christmas party in an Oslo restaurant, officials said Thursday.
The director of South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) told Reuters on Tuesday the new coronavirus variant Omicron could “outcompete Delta,” a highly-transmissible strain of coronavirus that emerged before Omicron in India in December 2020.
The British government has placed orders for 114 million more vaccine doses for use in 2022 and 2023, the Health Secretary has said.
The sudden emergence of the Omicron variant – and the fear it has generated – has been cited by the White House as a key driver behind President Joe Biden’s new campaign calling on all Americans to get coronavirus booster shots. Seniors will be particularly targeted under the enhanced program.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has called for discussions regarding the implementation of forced vaccination throughout the entire EU, in a move that has been described as the “Chinafication of Europe”.
The first confirmed U.S. case of the omicron coronavirus variant has been found in a fully vaccinated traveler who returned to California after a trip to South Africa, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that any public health policy President Joe Biden comes out with on Thursday won’t have any scientific backing since we don’t know how severe the
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday suggested that the definition of “fully vaccinated” could change, only applying to individuals who received a coronavirus booster shot as well.
Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, released a statement on the first case of the omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus in the United States but, notably, excluded the fact that the case had been identified in a fully vaccinated individual in California.
The Biden administration is considering a controversial proposal requiring international travelers, including United States citizens, to self-isolate for seven days, regardless of vaccination status or a negative coronavirus test.
President Joe Biden continues to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in high regard, despite growing controversy over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, discouraged countries on Tuesday from enacting travel bans on African countries that had contributed to identifying the Omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus, which the U.N. agency branded a “variant of concern” last week.
Britain’s new self-isolation rules have been extended to March of next year when the UK will mark over two years of COVID restrictions.
The governments of the Netherlands and Nigeria revealed between Tuesday and Wednesday that they had found evidence of people in their countries testing positive for the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus prior to scientists in South Africa confirming its existence.
