PM: State of Emergency likely to end once the Omicron variant is not a major threat

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It is likely that the government will follow through with plans to end the current State of Emergency (SOE), through an Act of Parliament on December 23, despite growing concerns with the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne made the disclosure on the weekend pointing out that the Omicron variant appears milder than the Delta strain resulting in fewer hospitalisations and deaths.

“We will obviously hold to that policy decision that we took a few weeks ago to remove the curfew as well as the State of Emergency. In fact, we go to Parliament next Thursday and the SOE is likely to be removed unless the data by then would have shown some difference in analysis that it is a more significant threat and there is a need to continue those measures.

“What we are seeking to do now is to return to normalcy. We do not have enough people vaccinated we need at least another 10,000 people vaccinated. The Omicron variant has a higher transmissibility rate than the Delta variant and the probability of contracting it will increase significantly,” he said.

First identified in Botswana and South Africa in November, Omicron has prompted concern among scientists and public health officials because it carries an unusually high number of mutations that make it more transmissible and less susceptible to existing vaccines.

On November 26, the World Health Organisation designated Omicron a “variant of concern” and that the global risks posed by it were “very high.”

Since then, the variant has been identified in nearly sixty countries, according to the WHO, on every continent except Antarctica

 

The UN agency also said on Sunday that while Omicron was more transmissible than the Delta strain, and reduced vaccine efficacy, it caused less severe symptoms according to early data.

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  1. So Gaston is going to lift State of emergency, curfew, but still leave travel restrictions on some countries!!! Gaston, it’s time you get your sh** together!!!

      • The real sinister message hidden within is CILANTRO MODE, that’s how we’re going to be controlled, with Cilantro! Quick, Brixie and Sugar, destroy all your Cilantro before it’s too late!!!

  6. – Explain to me why the answer to a milder version of a disease with an already low death rate is vaccines which don’t prevent infection but are supposed to prevent transmission, all the while causing bloodclots, Bell, palsy, paralysis, miscarriage, heart problems and death.
    – Explain to me why a medication which is good for everything, has been used for 35 years, prescribed over 4 billion times, on the WHO list of essential medicines is…is unsafe for treating COVID, despite having good results? Why do countries with 100% vaccination rates still have infections?
    – Explain to me why the only drugs that get emergency use authorization are the ones that don’t work, cost the most and are newest.
    – Explain why people are confusing ‘unvaccinated’ with infected, they are not the same thing.
    – Explain to me why it is commonly accepted that these ‘vaccines’ work when everyone personally knows at least one fully vaccinated person who’s been infected.
    – Explain to me why there’s ‘no proof’ that naturally acquired immunity works when almost no one can name some one who’s never taken the jab and been been infected twice.
    – Explain to me why vaccines are effective enough to protect you but ineffective enough for you to need a booster in as little as 2 months.

  7. ‘Real time’ diary from a Pfizer vaccinated male in November 2021:

    “I had my first Pfizer vaccine 15 days ago.

    9 days after the vaccine, I was feeling more tired and foggy than usual. I took my blood pressure and pulse rate, and it was normal. 124/80 and 53. I then put on a heart rate monitor, which picks up electrical activity directly from the heart.

    IT READ MY HEART RATE AS 214. Over the following hours, it read randomly from 180-220.

    This very strongly indicates Atrial Fibrillation (AF). Over the following weeks AF comes and goes.

    I am seeing a doctor in a few days … and suspect I may have Myocarditis or Pericarditis … But the fact is this started around a week after my first Covid-19 vaccine …”

    IF ANY OF THE VACCINATED READING THIS, AND ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME SYMPTOMS, PLEASE SEE A DOCTOR OR GP. STAY SAFE!

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