CORONAVIRUS IN THE WORLD: NEW GLOBAL RECORD WITH 3.4 MILLION COVID-19 INFECTIONS PER DAY

NEW GLOBAL RECORD WITH 3.4 MILLION COVID-19 INFECTIONS PER DAY

Health networks around the world today confirmed almost 3.4 million COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, a new daily record at a time when the omicron variant is already dominant, according to provisional data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The same number of new positives were recorded in a single day as in the first four months of the pandemic, and the accumulated figure for two years is 312 million, a conservative figure, since the WHO estimates that many of the cases have not been diagnosed or reported to the health networks.

The exponential upward curve of infection continues without affecting the death toll, which remains stable at around 7,000 deaths per day (7,700 in the last 24 hours).
However, for the first time this year, the new peak does not lead to an increase in hospitalizations or deaths associated with the coronavirus, a curve that has remained stable at between 4,000 and 8,000 deaths per day worldwide since October.
This was not the case in the three previous waves this year, recorded in January, April and August, and could be due to an increase in the inoculation rate, as existing vaccines protect against the most severe forms of the disease.