Europe May Start Treating COVID-19 As the Flu

Spain has become the first country in the world to start treating COVID like the flu and has asked people to just live with it.

Since COVID-19 started countries across the world have treated it like a dangerous infectious disease and implemented strict rules to control its spread. However,now many countries are reevaluating their restrictions to make it less strict and thinking of treating COVID like the flu. Spain has become the first country in the world to start treating COVID like the flu and has asked people to just live with it. Even the United Kingdom is planning to do the same. Many countries are shortening their quarantine period. For example the Czech Republic had a rule to quarantine COVID patients for 2 weeks and now they have reduced it to 5 days. Ireland and Belgium has made COVID vaccination voluntary. 

Countries like Denmark and Netherlands have said there is no need to wear masks anymore. However many countries like France & Italy have made rules strict because of the Omicron wave. Similarly even the Indian Government has kept masks and vaccinations compulsory to control the spread of Omicron. 

 

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