Doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic who are infected with Covid-19 will be allowed to keep working, the health ministry said on Friday. The rule will apply to all essential healthcare workers and social service personnel who test positive but do not show symptoms.... Omicron is now the dominant variant in the country. The Czech Republic has reported almost 2.6 million cases so far, a huge figure for a country of around 10.7 million people.... Covid death toll under Biden will soon overtak

That’s higher than last January, when a surge placed the national health system under severe strain. Spain is reporting almost 700 cases per 100, 000 inhabitants over 14 days, more than double the accumulated cases before last year’s Christmas holidays.... The omicron strain has soared from 5% of new cases in Spain to 47% within one week. But vaccinations are credited with sparing many people from the virus’s worst effects.... Only dozens of omicron cases have been seen here so far....