The Omicron variant has moved the COVID-19 pandemic into a brand new section and may deliver it to an result in Europe, the WHO Europe director mentioned Sunday. “It’s believable that the area is shifting against a type of pandemic endgame,” Hans Kluge informed AFP in an interview, including that Omicron may infect 60 % of Europeans through March. As soon as the present surge of Omicron lately sweeping throughout Europe subsides, “there shall be for moderately some weeks and months a world immunity, both due to the vaccine or as a result of folks have immunity because of the an infection, and in addition reducing seasonality”. “So we await that there shall be a length of quiet ahead of COVID-19 would possibly come again against the top of the 12 months, however now not essentially the pandemic coming again,” Kluge mentioned.