HOW OMICRON VIRUS TOOK THE WORLD BACK TO SQUARE ONE

There are speculations and reactions, questioning the efficacious of the COVID-19 vaccines, especially with the outbreak of the Omicron virus which is an offshoot of the initial COVID-19 pandemic.

There are helpful informations from health officials and agencies on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in the past, how COVID-19 vaccines are developed, tested and approved for use.

There are also needs to understand how regulators hold pharmaceutical companies to high medical standards on short timelines. Why COVID-19 vaccine side effects are expected and rarely serious.

But now that the world is seemingly back to square one, what exactly will the world do to combat the virus rampaging the globe. The world must have thought it had out the pandemic on check in recent months.

Now, going into the festive season, the grip of the pandemic is still on the world. With travel bans in place and football games been postponed because of the Omicron, it seems we are back to square one.