In the first week of the new year, the world witnessed more than two million daily injuries, compared to an average daily injury rate of one million in the last week of last year.

At a time when new countries announced recording the first infections with the Omicron mutant, a British minister said that he hopes that his country will become one of the first countries to learn to coexist with the Corona virus and to deal with the pandemic, and it has become a common disease.

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Today, Sunday, British Education Minister Nazim Al-Zahawi said that reducing the period of self-isolation for those who are confirmed to be infected with Covid-19 from 7 days to 5 will benefit the workforce, which has been severely affected by periods of absence from work.

Looking to the future, Al-Zahawi added that he hopes Britain will become one of the first countries to learn to "coexist" with Covid, and to see the pandemic become a common disease.

He also said that the Health Security Agency is reconsidering the length of the isolation period, and that the government is doing everything it can to ensure that the "overwhelmed" health service establishment is able to function.

And the United States health authorities had reduced the recommended isolation period - for people with Covid-19 who show symptoms - to 5 days, after it was previously double this period.

In France, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced today a "plan to strengthen" the testing policy, which includes deploying hundreds of examination centers near vaccination centers.

"About 10 million people" are tested for COVID-19 every week, but the queues are getting longer, Atal said.


Statistics and data

The American Johns Hopkins University stated that the number of infections around the world with the Corona virus exceeded 305 million cases as of this morning, while the total deaths from the virus increased by 5 million and 484 thousand.

The American University also stated that the total of vaccines - which were given in the whole world - exceeded 9 billion and 397 million doses.

According to the census of the French Press Agency, the epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 5 million 483 thousand and 23 people worldwide, and the United States was considered the most affected, with 837 thousand and 264 deaths, followed by Brazil (619 thousand and 937), then India (483 thousand and 790) and then Russia ( 316 thousand and 163).

For its part, the World Health Organization estimates that the epidemic outcome could be two to three times higher than that officially recorded.

Daily injuries increased in Europe last week by 47%, and in the United States and Canada (76%), while the rates remained stable in Africa, but they rose by 224% in the Oceania region, and by 148% in South America and the Caribbean, 116% in the Middle East, and 145% in general Asia.

Mexico was the fifth most affected country by Covid-19, with more than 300,000 deaths from the disease, and more than 30,000 new infections were recorded yesterday, with a record toll, which prompted some of its states to re-close schools.

Experts point out that the number of infections in this country may be much higher than the numbers reported by the authorities due to the few tests being conducted.

Peru also recorded more than 16,000 new infections on Saturday, which is a record number, in a country that has the highest death rate of Covid-19 in the world in proportion to the population (6,122 deaths per million people).

In Algeria, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that his country can combat the fourth wave of the epidemic.

Tebboune - in a speech at the conclusion of the Forum for the Renewal of the Health System - criticized the expectations of unnamed parties of a catastrophe, as he put it.

In Africa, more than 10 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded, according to figures issued by the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the African Union.

The city of Tinajin conducts extensive Corona examinations and today recommended its residents to stay in their homes (Reuters)

Chinese Tenjin

In China, the northern city of Tianjin announced that it had tested 14 million people for COVID-19.

Today, the city recommended its residents to stay in their homes, and extensive COVID-19 examinations are being conducted after several cases were recently recorded, including many infections with the mutant Omicron, according to state media.

The large coastal Tianjin, about 150 kilometers southeast of Beijing, has become a cause for concern after more than 20 cases of COVID-19 were reported there in recent days, most of them from overseas arrivals, according to the National Health Commission.