Coronavirus: Australia tops 10,000 daily cases; Malaysia says no mass celebrations allowed for New Year’s

Australia reported more than 10,000 daily Covid-19 cases for the first time since the start of the pandemic amid the rapid spread of the Omicron strain.New South Wales on Monday recorded 6,324 cases, with 55 in intensive care among 520 people in hospital. The most populous state also reported its first known death from the Omicron variant – a man in his 80s with underlying health issues who had received two doses of vaccine and became infected in his nursing home.Everyone in the state is likely…

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