Rome, December 29, 2021 – La variante Omicron keep running and the numbers of Covid continue to be scary in Europe: the France today sets a new record since the start of the pandemic: beyond 200 thousand infections in 24 hours. 208,000 people were infected on the last day, French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced to the National Assembly. Yesterday the country had registered 180,000 new cases.
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“In the week of December 20-26After a gradual increase since October, the global number of new cases grew 11% from the previous week, while deaths remained stable. This equates to just under 5 million new cases and over 44,000 deaths. “To make the point is the World Health Organization in the weekly epidemiological update. As of December 26, over 278 million cases have been recorded and just under 5.4 million deaths worldwide. Among the 5 countries with the highest number of new cases reported there is, this week, also Italy, with 257,579 new infections, + 62%, together with the United States (1,185 653 new cases per week, + 34%), Great Brittany (611,864, + 20%), France (504,642, + 41%) and Germany (197,845, -30% compared to the previous week).
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