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N.Y. Hits Record Cases; U.S. Infections Double: Virus Update
People wait in line for Covid-19 tests in New York, on Jan. 4.
Photographer: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
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New York reported a record 90,132 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday as the state passed 4 million total infections since the start of the pandemic. U.S. daily infections almost doubled over the last week, with hospitalizations rising rapidly and fatalities trending upward.
From Boris Johnson to Emmanuel Macron, Europe’s leaders are increasingly going after anti-vaxxers as the battle against omicron deepens the region’s pandemic fatigue. A strain of Covid-19 that combines delta and omicron was found in Cyprus, according to a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus.