Outbreaks of covid-19 in Europe and Asia worry Colombia

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Although some European countries have already begun to dismantle their biosecurity measures, others are rethinking them in the face of the rebound in covid cases, which they attribute to the circulation of the omicron BA.2 subvariant. For example, between March 2 and 10, daily coronavirus infections in Germany rose by 19%, in Italy by 17.7% and in Austria by 25.3% (see infographic). The figures have grown so much in Germany that they motivated the country's Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, to openly describe the situation as "critical". At a press conference, Lauterbach assured that he expects several new outbreaks of infection…