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Due to the spread of Omicron mutation, countries around the world are recording the highest number of new confirmed cases in history. According to an analysis, the number of new confirmed cases per day on a global basis has surpassed the record high since the corona epidemic.
Correspondent Han Se-hyeon.
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The number of new COVID-19 cases in major European countries, which had been stagnant since Christmas, recorded the highest ever.
The number of new confirmed cases in France was 179,807, an increase of 75,000 from the previous high of 104,000 on the 25th.
The UK also had 129,471 new confirmed cases, surpassing the 122,000 on the 24th for the first time in four days.
The cause of the steep spread was omicron mutations.
[Sajid Zavid/British Health Minister: Omicron mutation is spreading rapidly. It is now believed that about 90% of infections across the UK are omicron variants. This shows how fast the spread is.] Amid the
spread of Omicron mutation, Italy also recorded 78,313 new confirmed cases per day.
The number surpassed the record high of 54,000 on the 25th and 20,000.
The situation is the same in the US.
Over the past week, the average daily number of new confirmed cases reached 243,000, more than double the number two weeks ago.
This is close to the high of 251,000 people recorded in January.
[Joe Biden/President of the United States: This cannot be resolved at the federal level.
Each state government also has to step in.]
As of the 27th, Bloomberg reported that 1.49 million people around the world were newly confirmed with COVID-19, exceeding the record high in December last year.
Governments around the world have taken steps to strengthen quarantine measures, such as restricting traffic, saying that Omicron mutation, which has strong transmission power, may show a faster spread in conjunction with the increase in travel at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.