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The spread of Omicron mutation is scary. The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States and Europe, where the omicron mutation has become the dominant species or is already widespread, has also set a new record high. The WHO has warned by comparing the rapidly increasing number of confirmed cases to a 'tsunami'.
Correspondent Won Jong-jin.
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France has been the most rapidly spreading COVID-19 in Europe.
As of yesterday (29th), the number of new confirmed cases was 208,99.
After breaking the record for the most confirmed cases at 104,000 on Christmas Day and 179,000 the day before, the number of confirmed cases rapidly increased again within a day.
[Olivier Verand/French Health Minister: I would like to call the current spread of Omicron not a 'wave', but a 'tsunami' where waves gather and become bigger waves.] In the
UK yesterday, 183,37 people were confirmed, the highest number of confirmed cases. The embroidery record was broken again in one day.
In Italy, 98,30 new cases were confirmed, and more than 500,000 people were infected with Corona 19 in a single day in France, the UK and Italy alone.
In the United States, where the number of new confirmed cases recorded a record high of 441,278 as of yesterday, the average daily number of confirmed cases counted as of the last week has jumped to about 265,000.
The World Health Organization (WHO) compared the current situation, where the number of confirmed cases is increasing at a record level amid the simultaneous epidemic of delta and omicron mutations, to a tsunami, or tsunami.
[Ghebreyesus / WHO Director-General: A 'tsunami' of confirmed cases is occurring as the highly contagious Omicron and Delta spread.]
WHO expects that the rapid spread of Corona 19 will end by the end of next year, but the virus itself will not disappear. He repeatedly urged that the vaccination rate should be raised even to prevent the collapse of the medical system.