As the world faced the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, Iceland began 2022 by shifting towards “herd immunity” while China ended the year easing its zero covid approach
Health
14 December 2022
With vaccinations lowering covid-19 death rates, many countries chose to end almost all other measures to control the spread of the coronavirus in 2022 – but the virus is still causing waves of illness worldwide.
Early in the year, some nations began to abandon mitigation measures. Towards the end of February, Iceland’s strategy shifted from zero covid to “herd immunity”, which it hoped to achieve by allowing SARS-CoV-2 to spread while shielding vulnerable people. Days later, Iceland’s daily new …
source: newscientist.com