The Ômicron variant boosted more record of new cases of Covid-19 in the world. According to data released this Tuesday (11) by “Our World in Data”, a project linked to the English University of Oxford, 3.28 million people were infected on Monday.
The number is higher than on January 5, when 2.59 million patients were reported in one day, and it was the record until then.
The United States was primarily responsible for the new mark, as more than 1.48 million were infected in the last 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University. In Europe there were 991 thousand new cases and in Asia, 400 thousand.
According to the WHO (World Health Organization), the new strain should become prevalent in the world in the coming weeks. In the case of European countries, the organization believes that 50% of the population will be infected by Ômicron.
Hans Kluge, director for Europe at the WHO, said the pace of new cases indicated that possibility. “It is predicted that more than 50% of the population in the region will have been infected with the Ômicron variant in the next six, or eight, weeks. The strain has mutations capable of attaching itself more easily to human cells.”
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Unlike the other waves of the pandemic, there is now no increase in the number of deaths. In the last 24 hours, there were 6,400 deaths across the planet, with a moving average of deaths in the last 7 days of 6,300.
This data is lower than that recorded at the peak of the first wave, in April 2020, when the average was 7,100 deaths. The daily death record was almost a year ago, on January 20, 2021, with 18,000 deaths.
