EU Daily Cases Top 1m For First Time

UK PM Boris Johnson Joins Macron In Slamming Anti-Vaxxers; France House Approves Vaccine Pass Bill; Italy Makes Jabs Must For Over-50s

Omicron has taken holdin the European Union,where daily cases of coronavirus exceeded 1 million on Wednesday for the first time since the start of the pandemic, Bloomberg reported. Even though Omicron symptoms are largely relatively mild, governments are still worried about pressure on hospitals and broader health services, and have stepped up measures — as well as the language — to force people to get vaccinated.

A day after French President Emmanuel Macron slammed people who hadn’t taken the coronavirus shot, Britain’s PM Boris Johnson on Thursday hit out at anti-vaccine campaigners’ “mumbo jumbo” and “nonsense” in his toughest attack yet on those opposed to Covid-19 jabs. “I want to say to the anti-vax campaigners, the people who are putting this mumbo jumbo on social media: they are completely wrong,” Johnson told journalists.