Covid Breaks Records

The United States has reported more than one million new Covid-19 cases in a single day, setting a grim new global record, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. 

There were 1,082,549 new cases in the US reported on Monday following the long New Year’s weekend, according to the tracking group. The figure reported on January 03, however, is double the number of daily cases compared with the previous Monday. 

The rolling average of new cases over seven days, which experts see as more reliable, was 501,205 new daily cases as of Tuesday morning, the university reported. 

The US is not the only country breaking records. The UK breached 200,000 cases for the first time yesterday, Australia posted almost 50,000 and France registered more than 270,000, all three countries easily topping their previous records. 

Already, the WHO warned that Omicron’s dizzying spread increased the risk of newer, more dangerous variants emerging.

WHO senior emergency officer Catherine Smallwood (left) told AFP: “The more Omicron spreads, the more it transmits and the more it replicates, the more likely it is to throw out a new variant”. 

Still vaccination disparities between countries of the world are way too obvious. 

Wealthy nations have rushed to give their population third booster shots to counteract the rising cases, while many in poorer nations have not yet been able to receive a first. And ahead of the pack, Israel began rolling out fourth doses last week.