Coronavirus: Australia cases stick above 37,000 per day; infections in India, Japan surge to highest in months

Australia’s Covid-19 cases touched a fresh pandemic high on Tuesday amid an Omicron surge in its two most populous states as hospitalisations in New South Wales, home to Sydney, surpassed the record numbers hit during the Delta outbreak.NSW and Victoria, home to more than half of Australia’s 25 million people, saw another spike in infections, with 37,151 new cases reported between them, just shy of the national one-day high of 37,212 hit a day earlier.Tasmania reported 702 new cases. Other…

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