“Rest assured that the worst days are behind us,” said Health Minister Fahrettin Koca of Turkey, where the number of daily infections topped 100,000 on Tuesday, the highest on record in the country of over 80 million. Some governments are essentially betting that the pandemic is ebbing. In some places, like Norway and Denmark, the easing comes even though case counts are still hovering near their highs. as a whole is on a similar trajectory, with infections plunging from an average of over 800,000 a day 2 1/2 weeks ago to 430,000 this week.Įngland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands and several Nordic countries have taken steps to end or loosen their restrictions. New York City is averaging 4,200 cases a day, compared with 41,000 during the first week of January. New York’s governor plans in the next week to review whether to keep the state’s mask mandate at a time when cases and hospitalizations have plummeted in the early omicron hotspot. The city of Denver is ending requirements for proof of vaccination and mask rules for businesses and public spaces, while keeping them for schools and public transportation. In the U.S., local leaders have served up a hodgepodge of responses. In Britain and the U.S., as in South Africa before them, COVID-19 cases skyrocketed at first but are now coming down rapidly.
The most pronounced pullbacks in restrictions are in Europe, for many months the world’s epicenter of the pandemic, as well as in South Africa - where omicron was first announced publicly - and the United States. 24-30 were similar to the level of the previous week, though the number of new deaths increased 9% to more than 59,000, reflecting the usual lag between infection and death, according to the U.N. Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change
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