The U.S. has the highest daily average of confirmed cases... "Especially at risk for unvaccinated people"

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Due to the spread of omicron mutations, the number of corona patients around the world in the past week was the highest ever recorded. The number of hospitalized patients also broke the record, and the WHO has once again stressed the need for vaccination.

This is Correspondent Jeong Seong-jin.

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average daily number of COVID-19 cases in the United States has exceeded 760,000.

The upward trend has not stopped since it surpassed 700,000 three days ago.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, emphasized the contagious power of omicron mutations, saying that everyone will be exposed to omicron mutations at some point.

As the number of confirmed cases increases, the number of hospitalized patients and deaths is also increasing.

The average number of hospitalized patients per week has exceeded 150,000, and it is predicted that over 62,000 people will die from COVID-19 in the United States over the next four weeks.

On the other hand, in South Africa and the UK, where the omicron mutation was first spread, the spread seems to be easing.

South Africa, where there were close to 30,000 confirmed cases per day in the middle of last month, has slowed to 5,000.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said 15 million people were infected with COVID-19 last week, and emphasized the need for vaccination to counter the omicron mutation.

[Ghebreyesus / Director-General of the World Health Organization: Omicron mutation is less lethal than delta mutation, but it is still a dangerous virus.

It is especially dangerous for people who have not been vaccinated.] The

World Health Organization says the vast majority of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated, and that vaccination is effective in preventing death and seriousness.