据实时数据显示，随着新冠肺炎疫情席卷全球，全球已有超过510万人死于该疾病，其中包括超过77.6万美国人约翰·霍普金斯大学系统科学与工程中心。

根据美国疾病控制和预防中心的数据，美国只有59.1%的人口完全接种了新冠肺炎疫苗疾病控制和预防中心。

官员称，加拿大确诊2例奥米克龙病例

政府官员周日宣布，加拿大安大略省已确诊两例新变种奥米克龙病例。

“今天，安大略省在渥太华确认了两例新冠肺炎奥米克隆变种病例，这两例病例都是在最近从尼日利亚旅行的个人中报告的。渥太华公共卫生正在进行病例和接触管理，患者处于隔离状态，”副总理兼卫生部长克里斯蒂娜·埃利奥特(Christine Elliott)和卫生首席医疗官基兰·摩尔(Kieran Moore)博士在一份声明中表示。

在检测到omicron COVID变体后，南非不会实施进一步的限制

在检测到奥米克龙COVID变异体后，南非总统西里尔·拉马福萨周日向全国发表讲话，并表示该国国家冠状病毒指挥委员会周六召开会议，审议最近感染人数的上升以及奥米克龙变异体的可能影响。他们决定在现阶段不实施进一步的限制。

拉马福萨说:“我们考虑到了这样一个事实，即当我们遇到前几波感染时，疫苗并不广泛可用，接种疫苗的人要少得多。

Ramaphosa说，他们将在未来几天密切监测感染率和住院情况，并将在另一周审查情况。

根据非洲疾控中心的数据，南非只有23.66%的人口完全接种了COVID疫苗。

拜登将于周日接受关于奥米克隆变异体的面对面简报

乔·拜登总统将于周日下午返回白宫，他的新冠肺炎应对团队和安东尼·福奇博士将亲自向他介绍奥米克龙变种的最新情况。

这是拜登自周五以来第三次就奥米克隆问题做简报。

一名白宫官员告诉美国广播公司新闻，“今天下午，总统将与他的新冠肺炎应对团队成员和总统首席医疗顾问福奇博士举行一次面对面的简报会，介绍奥米克龙变种和政府应对措施的最新情况。”。

发现变种的南非医生说，Omicron症状“轻微”

据发现这种变异的南非医生说，奥米克龙新冠肺炎变异的症状是轻微的。

南非医学协会主席安琪丽可·库切博士告诉路透社记者:“从我们目前看到的轻微症状来看，我们没有理由恐慌，因为我们没有看到重病患者。”。“目前媒体和世界范围内的大肆宣传与临床情况不相关。这并不意味着仅仅禁止我们去南非旅行，好像我们是整个过程中的变种，不应该是这样的。”

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一名医护人员从一名乘客身上采集拭子，用于针对Covid-29的聚合酶链反应检测..

库切说，那些检测呈阳性的人最主要的抱怨是连续几天严重疲劳，以及头痛和身体疼痛。

COVID-19 live updates: 2 cases of omicron confirmed in Canada, officials say

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.1 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 776,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled byJohns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

Just 59.1% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.

2 cases of omicron confirmed in Canada, officials say

Two cases of the new variant omicron have been confirmed in Ontario, Canada, government officials announced Sunday.

"Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Ottawa, both of which were reported in individuals with recent travel from Nigeria. Ottawa Public Health is conducting case and contact management and the patients are in isolation," Christine Elliott, deputy premier and minister of health, and Dr. Kieran Moore, chief medical officer of health, said in a statement.

South Africa will not impose further restrictions after omicron COVID variant detected

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed his nation on Sunday following the detection of the omicron COVID variant and said the country's National Coronavirus Command Council met Saturday to consider the recent rise in infections and the possible impact of the omicron variant. They have decided not to impose further restrictions at this stage.

"We considered the fact that when we encountered previous waves of infection, vaccines were not widely available and far fewer people were vaccinated," Ramaphosa said.

Ramaphosa said they will closely monitor infection rates and hospitalization over the coming days and will review the situation in another week.

Only 23.66% of South Africa's population is fully vaccinated against COVID, according to the Africa CDC.

Biden to receive in-person briefing on omicron variant Sunday

President Joe Biden, who is returning to the White House Sunday afternoon, will be briefed in person by his COVID-19 response team and Dr. Anthony Fauci for an update on the omicron variant.

This is Biden's third briefing on omicron since Friday.

"This afternoon, the president will have an in-person briefing with members of his COVID-19 response team and Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Fauci to provide an update on the omicron variant and the administration’s response," a White House official told ABC News.

Omicron symptoms 'mild', says South African doctor who spotted variant

The symptoms from the omicron COVID-19 variant are mild, according to the South African doctor who spotted the variant.

"Looking at the mildness of the (omicron) symptoms that we are seeing, currently, there's no reason for panicking as we don't see severely ill patients," Dr. Angelique Coetzee, who is the Chair of the South African Medical Association, told Reuters. "The hype that's been created currently out there in the media and worldwide doesn't correlate with the clinical picture. And it doesn't warrant to just cut us off from any traveling and ban South Africa, as if we are the variants in the whole process, it should not be like that."

Coetzee said the most predominant complaints from those who have tested positive omicron are severe fatigue for a couple of days, as well as headaches and body aches.