New Covid-19 global case numbers have soared by 270 per cent since the highly contagious Omicron variant was discovered in South Africa in late November. - The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE/PARIS, Jan 8 (AFP): The world recorded more than two million daily coronavirus cases on average between Jan 1 and 7 with figures doubling in 10 days, an AFP tally showed on Saturday.
An average of 2,106,118 new daily infections were reported over the seven-day period, shortly after the one million case threshold was passed in the week of Dec 23-29, 2021.
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