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Doctor Anthony Fauci again sounded the alarm on Sunday. The White House adviser on the health crisis has warned that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is “rampant” across the world. “This virus is extraordinary”, admitted the scientist on CNN by evoking its speed of propagation. “He’s going to take over” and “we’re going to have tough weeks or months as we get closer to winter.”
To limit the damage of this new wave, Joe Biden’s adviser especially urged Americans to get vaccinated and receive their booster dose.
The left is back in power in Chile. It’s even a landslide victory for Gabriel Boric. The candidate won the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, a victory officially recognized by his far-right opponent, José Antonio Kast.
The left coalition, of which the Communist Party is a member, thus easily wins this duel unprecedented since the return to democracy in 1990 between two candidates with diametrically opposed societal projects. According to the final official results, Gabriel Boric, who, at 35, was just old enough to run, won with nearly 56% of the vote against 44% for José Antonio Kast, an admirer of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet supported by the whole of the Chilean right.
Once again, a natural disaster has come to mourn the Philippines. And this time again, the human toll is terrible and it is unfortunately only temporary. The devastating passage of the typhoon Rai killed 208 people, the national police announced on Monday. This makes this powerful natural phenomenon one of the deadliest in recent years in the country.
At least 239 people were injured and 52 are missing in the southern and central regions of the archipelago. More than 300,000 people have also fled their homes. The Philippine branch of the Red Cross even reported “complete carnage” in coastal areas.