World number of coronavirus infections breaks daily tally record

The world number of cases of the coronavirus broke the record for the daily tally of new infections, averaging more than 3 million cases a day between January 18 and January 19. The world average 3,095,971 daily cases were an increase of 17% over the previous week, according to the AFP news agency. The massive increase seems to be the result of the highly transmissible omicron variant, with the daily case tally increasing more than five times since the discovery of the variant.