World / France tops 200000 daily Covid cases in new record as World hits record number of Covid cases in a week

France : Record cases of corona have been registered in a week all over the world. The highly transmissible variant Omicron is causing a large number of cases in many countries, and 37 percent more cases were reported globally between December 22 and 28 than the previous week, according to AFP news agency based on a national database. . Not long ago, the WHO warned that the Omicron variant of the corona virus poses a "very high" risk and could affect the world's health system.

corona crisis in europe

A total of 6.55 million cases were reported between 22-28 December, the highest since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic in March 2020. The biggest crisis of the virus is currently being seen in Europe. According to AFP, Corona has once again caused an outcry in Europe and governments have been forced to reimpose restrictions to reduce the load on hospitals. Studies show Omicron has a low risk of hospitalization, but the World Health Organization still urges caution. More than 3.5 million cases have been reported in Europe in the past seven days, with Britain, France, Greece and Portugal all reporting the largest number of cases every day.

More than 2 lakh cases in France

The European country France has registered more than 200,000 cases of Kovid-19 in 24 hours. Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday that this is a new daily record. Veran told a parliamentary hearing that 179,807 cases were registered on Tuesday but on Wednesday the figure reached 208,000. "I would no longer call Omicron a wave, I would call it a tsunami. Looking at the numbers we've been seeing over the past few days, we're headed for a landslide," he said. Veran said that about 10 percent of the French population had been exposed to someone who has been infected with the virus, and that even vaccination was unlikely to provide adequate protection. France on Wednesday extended the closure of nightclubs by another three weeks.

Record highest number of cases in a single day in America

On Tuesday, 265,427 new Kovid-19 cases were reported in the US. These new cases broke the previous record of 252,000 daily cases in the US. About a year ago, on January 11, 252,000 cases were reported. But on Tuesday, 265,427 new cases broke the old record. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the new record has been set at a time when infections have been spreading rapidly in the US and around the world since last month.

Difficult will pass in January 2022

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said, "January is going to be really tough. And people just have to brace themselves for a month where a lot of people are going to get infected." According to AFP, more than 5.4 million people have died worldwide from Kovid-19, but the number of deaths has come down to an average of 6,450 per day, the lowest since October 2020.