Omicron infects record 9.5 million ina week as WHO warns it is ‘not the last variant’

Geneva: The World Health Organisation says a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71 per cent increase from the previous seven-day period that the UN health agency likened to a “tsunami”.

However, the…