 "Omicron threat: Covid's global surge raises testing, quarantine alarm")
Global Covid-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day period, the data showed on Wednesday, as the new Omicron variant raced out of control, keeping workers at home and overwhelming testing centres.
Almost 900,000 cases were detected on average each day around the world between December 22-28, and the tally held over one million for the second day, with myriad countries posting new all-time highs over the past 24 hours, including the United States, Australia and many European nations.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the circulation of the Delta and Omicron variants of coronavirus was creating a “tsunami of cases”.
France, Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta all registered a record number of new cases on Tuesday, while the average number of daily Covid-19 cases in the United States hit a record 265,427 over the past seven days, according to Bloomberg, on Wednesday. The previous peak was a figure of 251,085 registered in early January, this year.
Almost 900,000 cases were detected on average each day around the world between December 22-28, and the tally held over one million for the second day, with myriad countries posting new all-time highs over the past 24 hours, including the United States, Australia and many European nations.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the circulation of the Delta and Omicron variants of coronavirus was creating a “tsunami of cases”.
France, Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta all registered a record number of new cases on Tuesday, while the average number of daily Covid-19 cases in the United States hit a record 265,427 over the past seven days, according to Bloomberg, on Wednesday. The previous peak was a figure of 251,085 registered in early January, this year.
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