PARIS, Jan 8 — The total number of Covid-19 cases registered worldwide passed 300 million yesterday, with the Omicron variant’s rapid spread setting new infection records in dozens of countries over the last week.
Even as it spurred the world to record 13.5 million cases in the last week alone — 64 per cent higher than the previous seven days — the global average of deaths dropped three per cent. World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Omicron should not be categorised as mild, as it “is hospitalising people and it is killing people”.
The mandates, requiring Covid jabs at businesses that employ 100 people, have come under attack from some Republican lawmakers and business owners as an infringement on individual rights and an abuse of government power.“It is by far the greatest public health danger that this country has faced in the last century,” she added.
Men’s tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has been at the centre of his own controversy after being dramatically refused entry to play in Australia due to his vaccine status.
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