From UK records highest ever daily number of COVID cases
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People wait in line at a vaccination center in London on Dec. 13, 2021. (Frank Augstein/AP)
Britain records a further 78,610 laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases, the highest daily total since the pandemic hit the country last year.
The arrival of the Omicron variant has sent cases spiraling, with the daily total overtaking the previous highest figure of 68,053, which came in January as the Alpha variant spread.
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