The world surpasses the record number of one million daily cases of coronavirus for the first time

The world registered in the past 24 hours 1.35 million infections by coronavirus covid-19, a daily figure never seen before and that exceeds the previous record by 40%, according to provisional figures from the World Health Organization (WHO).

This strong increase seems to be associated with the rise in omicron variant, considerably more contagious than delta, although the WHO He pointed out this Wednesday that it is the combination of the two that is causing the current “tsunami of cases.”

The current wave is the fourth globally experienced in the pandemic this year, after those that had their peaks in January, April and August, these more associated with variants such as alpha (first detected in the United Kingdom) or delta (in India).

However, the current wave is the first in 2021 that does not seem to be associated with an increase in deaths from covid-19, which could be linked to the higher vaccination rate in many countries affected by the omicron variant.

The daily deaths currently range between 4,000 and 8,000, and the curve for this indicator has remained stable since the beginning of October.

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