The contamination by the COVID-19 flambé around the world with the explosion of the omicron variant. Countries have even recorded contamination records such as France and the United Kingdom.
France, struck by this new wave of contamination, has recorded more than 90,000 new cases in 24 hours, an absolute record since the start of the epidemic in March 2020.
In the United Kingdom, nearly 120,000 additional COVVI-19 cases were recorded yesterday, Thursday, December 23, establishing a new record. The increase over seven days exceeds 50% and the number of hospitalizations begins to increase, especially in London.
In other countries such as Spain, Italy or Greece, the epidemic rebound is important, forcing them to take new measures, such as that of again imposing the mask outside.
Spanish justice has just authorized the establishment of a night curfew in a large part of Catalonia.
In Asia, China has decided to impose strict confinement on the 13 million inhabitants of the city of Xi’an (North) after the discovery of a few dozen cases.
In the United States, with 171,000 daily cases on average over seven days, the wave due to omicron, already largely dominant among new infections, is about to exceed the peak of that due to the Delta vary.
