Qatar – Vaccination, public health steps may stem wave of Covid infections globally

Qatar – Vaccination, public health steps may stem wave of Covid infections globally

The Covid-19 pandemic is not an obvious cause for optimism, but the progress of vaccination programmes around the world is giving people some hope that things will improve in 2022. Despite the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19, people around the world are feeling"surprisingly positive" about the New Year, reveals a global survey by researcher Ipsos. Over 75% of people around the world think 2022 will be a better year than 2021, reveals a survey by researcher Ipsos, whose details have been published by the World Economic Forum. Ipsos asked over 22, 000 adults in some 33 countries to give their personal predictions for 2022. Although concerns persist about rising prices and the environment, most people felt things would be better in the New Year. Although people around the world expect extreme weather events caused by global warming to intensify in 2022, especially in those European countries badly affected by flooding in 2021, there was more optimism about the readiness of people to take action to halt it. Optimism about the state of the global economy is picking up, the Ipsos survey has shown. People have greater expectations for stock market stability in 2022 than they did in 2021. Although