12 Jan 2022 By Know Muslim
Meanwhile, five million residents in China’s central city of Anyang on Tuesday started home confinement in a new lockdown to curb the spread of the highly transmissible strain, according to state media.
Elsewhere, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under renewed pressure amid a new surge in cases after an email was leaked inviting about 100 staff to bring drinks to a party at his home during the country’s first lockdown in May 2020.
Argentina has hit a record number of COVID-19 infections in 24 hours. The government reported 134,439 new cases on Tuesday – 34,000 more than the previous record set on Friday.
More than 117,000 people have died of coronavirus complications in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that she tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, but she credited the vaccine for only experiencing “cold-like symptoms”.
“This is an urgent reminder for folks to get vaccinated and boosted as it’s the only way to beat this pandemic,” Lightfoot wrote on Twitter.
France smashed its daily record as the highly contagious Omicron variant races through the population. There were 368,149 infections reported within 24 hours, the French health authority said.
Turkey has recorded 74,266 new coronavirus cases in the space of 24 hours, its highest daily figure of the pandemic, health ministry data showed, prompting the health minister to warn of the danger represented by Omicron.
There were 137 deaths related to coronavirus in the same period, the data showed. In late December, daily cases stood at about 20,000.
The United Kingdom has recorded an additional 379 deaths from COVID-19, its highest since last February when the country registered 442 fatalities.
The numbers bring deaths since the start of the pandemic to 150,609.
The government data also showed there were an additional 120,821 cases in the UK in the last 24 hours, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to more than 14.7 million.
Slovenia reported a record 5,164 new COVID-19 cases, a 52 percent rise from a week before, amid the spread of Omicron.
Slovenia has vaccinated 67.3 percent of its population with at least two doses so far, according to the National Institute for Public Health.
Poland’s health minister has said that the country’s total COVID-19 death toll has passed 100,000.
“Today we can say it is another sad day, but especially so because we have passed the level of 100,000 COVID deaths,” Adam Niedzielski.
Australia’s COVID-19 infections have surged to near-record levels due to the Omicron variant putting a strain on hospitals already stretched by staff isolating after being exposed to the virus.
Australia reported nearly 86,000 cases on Tuesday, with two states due to report later.
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