More than half of Omicron cases in the UK are among fully vaccinated people

Being double-vaxxed doesn't always protect people from the Omicron variant, UK health officials said.

A total of 134 cases of Omicron were confirmed in the UK as of Friday night, the Guardian reported.

The quick spike in infections came amid a report from the UK Health Security Agency indicating that the first 22 Omicron cases in England were people that had gotten two shots of a coronavirus vaccine.

Of those, 12 cases occurred more than 14 days after the individual had received at least two doses of vaccine.

Two cases were more than 28 days after a first dose of vaccine.

No one has died or been hospitalized yet among the new cases involving Omicron, the Guardian reported.

In Scotland, Omicron cases increased by 16 in the past 24 hours to 29, a significant jump on the three cases identified the previous day.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/more-than-half-of-uk-omicron-cases-are-the-double-vaxxed/