According to a group of 300 scientific researchers, rich countries’ failure to deliver the world with access to coronavirus jabs is an ‘incautious approach to public health’ that outcomes in conditions that permit for variants, such as the more virulent Omicron COVID-19 variant, to emerge.

According to The Telegraph report, the scientists said in a letter to Boris Johnson, the U.K. Prime Minister, that U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) and people had been put at risk because of the country’s global immunization policy. The letter urges the United Kingdom to support the waiver of intellectual property rights for coronavirus tests, treatments, and vaccines. Moreover, the Telegraph reported that the researchers who signed the letter included a Noble prize winner and a former NHS CEO, and 3 Bn people all over the world remain uninoculated.

In the meantime, over 0.1M daily infections were reported in Russia for the first time on Jan. 29 as the more continuous Omicron variant spreads throughout the country. The administration’s COVID-19 task force reported an all-time high of 113122 new infections, an almost seven times increase from the previous in January. In addition, the task force reported nearly 668 fatalities, increasing the nation’s death toll to 324060.

2 yrs ago 🇿🇦 & 🇮🇳 proposed at @WTO a #TRIPSwaiver on COVID-19 vaccines, technology & know-how.

Today, +3 billion people globally have not had a first dose.

This is a moral outrage!

Leaving billions of people unvaccinated is a reckless approach to public health.#PeoplesVaccine https://t.co/3FwTDvpjbl

— Winnie Byanyima (@Winnie_Byanyima) January 28, 2022

Beijing Reports Spike in New COVID-19 Infections

In the Indian capital New Delhi, a curfew was picked up for the weekend, permitting markets, theaters, and restaurants to temporarily reopen at half their usual capacity. New Delhi has been among the worst-hit areas in the third wave of COVID-19 infections led by the more transmissible Omicron variant. The weekend amnesty came after the city administration imposed the curfew on 4th January and ordered restaurants and schools to close.

Just days before the commencement of the Olympic Games Beijing 2022, Beijing has recorded its record high number of coronavirus infections in about one-and-half years. After twenty more infections were reported in Beijing, officials declared that some local parts had been shut down, with inhabitants being tested for COVID-19. Separately, 19 cases were recorded on Friday among the Olympic officials and athletes in PRC, bringing the total number to 36.

In the United States, over 2500 fatalities are being reported most days, a number that continues to rise. Daily death records remain below peak levels observed Winter 2021, but at the present pace, America would touch 0.9M COVID-related deaths by mid-next month. Unfortunately, more than 884250 people have lost their lives from fatal COVID-19.

According to the Johns Hopkins University data, over 374 million worldwide coronavirus infections have been reported, and about ten billion COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered.

Two New York Nurses Purportedly Forged COVID-19 Immunization Cards

Authorities in New York have arrested two nurses in Long Island – a heavily urbanized and densely populated island in New York – who officials say earned over $1.5M by counterfeiting COVID-19 immunizations cards. The owner of Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare, Julie DeVuono, 49, and her worker Marissa Urraro, 44, have been charged with felony falsification. Moreover, she was charged with the crime of “offering a false instrument for filing.”