The current wave of cases of COVID-19, associated with the boom in the omicron variant, continues without remitting and has already exceeded the barrier of two million global infections in the last 24 hours, according to provisional figures shown today by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The national health networks reported 2.29 million cases to this body on January 5, and since December 29 the million daily cases were exceeded for the first time, that barrier has been exceeded for seven days (until then, the peak of the pandemic was 900,000 daily cases, in April 2021).
Despite the strong increase in cases, which double or even triple the peaks of previous waves, the number of deaths from the disease remains stable, with 7,000 global deaths registered on January 5, a figure that falls within the average observed for three months.
In the accumulated of a pandemic that is now entering its second year, the infections of 293 million people with COVID-19, of which 5.4 million died, 1.8% of the total.
On Wednesday, the United States, the most mourning country in the world with more than 832,000 deaths from coronavirus, registered about 600,000 new cases.
The variant omicron and Christmas gatherings are triggering infections in Italy, which increased 153% between December 29 and January 4 compared to the previous seven days.
India reported 90,928 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, an increase of more than 50% in just one day.
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