NEW: Massachusetts officials purchase 2.1 million at-home COVID-19 tests to give for free to 102 towns with the highest percentage of people below the poverty level, Gov. Charlie Baker says.
Philadelphia restaurants will require proof of vaccination beginning on Jan. 3, city officials announced.In this May 18, 2021 file photo a woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Philadelphia."New cases and hospitalizations are rising, and we must do more to protect our residents," Mayor Jim Kenney tweeted.
Meanwhile, preliminary findings from South Africa suggest omicron may cause less severe illness than delta, and all cases of omicron reported in Europe to date have been mild or asymptomatic. But the WHO said"it remains unclear to what extent omicron may be inherently less virulent" and that"more data are needed to understand the severity profile."People queue up outside St.Thomas's hospital for Covid-19 boosters in London, Dec. 13, 2021.
The diagnostic accuracy of routinely used polymerase chain reaction test and antigen-based rapid diagnostic test assays does not appear to be influenced by omicron. Therapeutic interventions for the management of severe or critical COVID-19 symptoms associated with omicron are also expected to remain effective, according to the WHO.
Ramaphosa is self-isolating in Cape Town and is being monitored by the South African Military Health Service. He has delegated all his responsibilities to Deputy President David Mabuza for the next week, his office said.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a state memorial service for Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid president and a Nobel laureate, at the Groote Kerk church in Cape Town on Dec. 12, 2021.
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