Omicron outbreak at Norway Christmas party is biggest outside S. Africa, authorities say

[Puccini]

Omicron outbreak at Norway Christmas party is biggest outside S. Africa, authorities say

PUBLISHED SAT, DEC 4 202112:03 PM EST

 

At least 13 people in Oslo have been infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus following a corporate Christmas party described as a “super spreader event,” and their numbers could rise to over 60 cases, authorities said on Friday.

 

The outbreak took place at a Christmas party on Nov. 26 organized by renewable energy company Scatec, which has operations in South Africa where the variant was first detected.

 

“This party has been a super spreader event,” Preben Aavitsland, a senior physician at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, told Reuters by email.

 

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/omicron-outbreak-at-norway-christmas-party-is-biggest-outside-s-africa-authorities-say.html

 

Edited December 19, 2021 by Puccini

[Puccini]

This is an example of how fast Omicron spreads.

[ikke1959]

That is in Norway. In Thailand things are different.. Look at Phuket in 1 day 5 people infected, and already as far as we know 14 other cases in the rst of the country. After the mass events it will skyrocketing... or maybe not as we see in every day in the Covid cases...

[Thunglom]

A the rate that Omicron is increasing by the day in UK, every single person in the UK would be infected by January.