The U.S. is now averaging 300,387 new Covid cases per day, a pandemic record and the first time the 300,000 mark has been reached in America. More than 500,000 Covid cases were reported on Monday, though that was a result of a large backlog of cases from the Christmas holiday. The UK accounts for a vast majority of the 334,000 Omicron cases confirmed worldwide, with 210,122 confirmed as of Thursday morning. Second to the UK in confirmed Omicron cases in Denmark, which has sequenced 46,140 confirmed cases as of Thursday morning. Germany has sequenced the third highest total of Omicron cases, with 16,748, and has instituted some lockdown measures of its own.
