The United States records its highest-ever seven-day average of new COVID cases, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
The moving average of new cases was 265,427 as of yesterday, surpassing the previous peak of 251,989 set in mid-January 2021, the tracker showed.
France records more than 200,000 cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours, a new daily record, Health Minister Olivier Veran says as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread.
Veran tells a parliamentary hearing that 208,000 positive cases had been recorded, up from 179,807 cases reported yesterday.
“I wouldn’t call Omicron a wave anymore, I would call it a groundswell,” Veran says. “Given the numbers we have been seeing these past few days, we’re talking about a landslide.”
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