COVID: Better to cancel Christmas events than grieve later, warns WHO chief amid Omicron spread

euronews (in English) 2021-12-21

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"An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, highlighting data suggesting Omicron spreads "significantly faster" than the Delta variant.
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