PARIS: The US, Britain, France and Australia have all announced record numbers of daily Covid-19 cases as the WHO warned Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that Omicron's dizzying spread increased the risk of newer, more dangerous variants emerging.

Britain breached 200,000 cases for the first time on Tuesday, Australia posted almost 50,000, and France registered more than 270,000, all three countries easily topping their previous records.

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