Australia is experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 caused by a new strain of the Omicron coronavirus, which has caused a record number of people to be hospitalized during the entire pandemic.
So, according to the publication, in Australia over the past day, 77 deaths from coronavirus were registered, which exceeds the previous national maximum of 57 deaths, which was recorded on January 13.
It is indicated that about 73 thousand new infections were detected in the country yesterday.
In general, about 1.6 million cases of coronavirus have already been recorded in Australia, of which about 1.3 million have been in the past two weeks. In total, 2,776 people died from the disease in the country.
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