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In recent months, the continent has once again become the epicenter of the pandemic and is battling an increased number of cases due to the highly transmissible Omicron strain.
Delhi’s Saturday’s increase is the highest since May 21 when 3,009 cases were reported with a positivity rate of 4.76 per cent, while 252 deaths were also reported that day. As per official data, the city had recorded 1,796 cases and positivity rate of 1.73 per cent on Friday and 1,313 cases with 2.44 per cent positivity rate on Thursday.
The tally showed that the European region, including 52 countries and territories from the Atlantic coast to Azerbaijan and Russia, has recorded 100,074,753 infections of Covid-19 in the past two years. This equates to more than a third of the 288,279,803 cases reported worldwide since the pandemic broke out in China in late 2019.
Meanwhile, Mumbai recorded 6,347 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the caseload in the city to 7,91,457, a civic official said. Saturday’s count is the highest since 5,888 cases were seen on April 24 this year during the second wave. The death toll rose by one to 16,377. The number of active cases stood at 22,334, up from 16,441 a day earlier.
France has become the sixth country in the world to report more than 10 million COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began, according to official figures published on Saturday. Health officials in the country reported more than 200,000 daily confirmed COVID cases for the fourth day in a row. Announcing the new restrictions amid a huge spike in cases, the government has said, children aged six and above will have to wear face masks on public transport from Monday. Masks were previously made mandatory from the age of 11, but Paris is tightening the rules given the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.
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