Geneva: “Tsunami” “tsunami” driven by the Covid variant threatened to defeat the health care system, which said on Wednesday as AFP data showed cases had soared throughout the world in the past week which had never been seen before.
Omicron who was very transmitting to encourage the United States, France and Denmark to fresh recordings on Wednesday, with the calculation of AFP of 6.55 million infections reported globally for seven days to Tuesday which showed a unprecedented spread.
The numbers were the highest since the World Health Organization stated that the pandemic in March 2020, underlined the blazing omicron transmission rate, with tens of millions of people faced the second year in a row limiting the celebration of New Year’s Eve.
“I am very worried that Omicron, becomes more transmitting, circulating at the same time as Delta, leading to the tsunami case,” said the head of Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“This and will continue to provide great pressure on exhausted health workers, and the health system on the verge of collapsing,” he added.
The surge, currently the worst in Europe, forces the government to run in the midst of the limits designed to stop the hospital so that the need to maintain the economy and the community is open two years after the virus first appeared at the end of 2019.
The United States, where Omicron is an extraordinary hospital, record the average seven-day high of new cases at 265,427, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Harvard Epidemiologist and Immunology Harvard Michael Mina Tweeted that the amount may only be “the end of the iceberg” with the actual number of cases, due to lack of tests.
But the country also seems to experience decoupling between infections and severe results compared to the previous wave, officials said, as evidence to accumulate lighter cases under the new variant.
France recorded a new daily record of more than 200,000 cases – more than double the amount recorded on Christmas Day – and extended to January closure nightclub.
French police said that wearing an outdoor face mask would be mandatory in Paris from Friday to everyone over the age of 11 unless those in the vehicle, cyclists, two-wheeled transportation users such as scooters, and those who participated in sports and those who participate in sports, and those who participate in sports, and those who participate in sports, and those who participate in sports, and those who participate in sports, and those who participate in sports
Denmark, who currently has the highest level of infection in the world per person, recording a new record of 23,228 new infections, whose party is associated with a large number of tests carried out after the Christmas celebration.
Portugal also saw a record with nearly 27,000 cases reported in 24 hours, while Lebanon had 3,150 new infections – tally daily highest because the vaccine was launched earlier this year.
The number of people in the hospital with Covid in the UK reached 10,000, total highs since March, when England reached a new record of 183,037 cases everyday in the last 24 hours.
