WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the ‘acute’ stage of the global Covid pandemic should finish this year, provided countries share vaccines and work together.
The data, released by the Metropolitan Police via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, showed the number of cases has risen by 698 between October 1, 2020 and October 31, 2021.
In a series of tweets Bill Gates told his followers to take the Omicron variant, which is ‘spreading faster than any virus in history,’ seriously and said he was forced to cancel ‘most’ of his holiday plans.
Hundreds of anti-vaxx protesters have gathered in Melbourne to fight vaccine mandates and the pandemic bill.
South Australia has recorded 64 new cases of coronavirus, the highest daily increase it has recorded since the start of the pandemic.