Also three deaths in New South Wales and 6,324 new cases:

In the relentless march of Omicron variant in the world … Kosovo had its first cases. The Balkan state has had relatively low rates with 22 people testing positive for Covid in the past few days. But nine of them had Omicron, Reuters reports, and health officials there say his arrival is expected to make matters worse.

The updated figures show that more than 1,000 flights have been immobilized in the United States on Sunday. Reuters reports that 1,001 trips were canceled, exceeding the 997 abandoned flights on the day of Christmas and about 700 on Christmas Eve. Thousands more have been delayed.

Crews have been forced into quarantine as Covid rises in the United States, and bad weather hasn’t helped.

Here are some more details about the reveal that hundreds of people have passed the day of Christmas mistakenly believing they had the green light. A Sydney The hospital has told more than 400 people that they tested negative, when in fact they were positive. Eek.

Read all about it here, and we’ll see how they reconcile those numbers later this morning:

Thank you very much, Nadeem. conservative shepherd here in Australia, where the number of Covid cases is also increasing.

I’ll bring you the latest numbers as they come in. Worryingly, there is an expected after Christmas peak in number. New South Wales reported 6,394 new infections on Sunday, which led the health minister Brad Hazzard saying “we are all going to have Omicron”. (Not everyone was entirely happy with this prediction).

Nationwide, nearly 10,000 cases have been recorded, including in states previously “Covid-free”. Western Australia, who has undergone the strictest border restrictions, finds the contacts of a French backpacker who tested positive for Delta variant.

Victoria reported 1,608 cases, Queensland 714, South australia 774, the Australian Capital Territory 71, Tasmania 44, and the North territory 12.

I will keep you posted as the new issues become available.

from Kosovo The health ministry said it has registered its first nine cases of the Omicron variant coronavirus in the Balkan country.

The ministry said of the nine people, two were from the United States, two from the United Kingdom, one from France, and the other four cases were people who had not traveled outside the country, Reuters reports. .

Labor demanded ministers in the UK risk the emergence of other variants of Covid such as Omicron by thwarting an offer from the poorest countries to manufacture their own vaccines.

The British government has “actively prevented countries in Africa and the developing world from making their own vaccines” by opposing an intellectual property rights waiver for Covid vaccines, according to the party.

Rich countries are divided over the proposal for a temporary waiver, first launched last year by India and South Africa. While the United States, Australia and New Zealand supported the idea, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Switzerland opposed it.

The volume of traffic in the streets UK Boxing Day may have been affected by new coronavirus restrictions that went into effect in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Sunday, including the wearing of masks in all stores and limiting the size of groups of six inside.

Attendance in Northern Ireland was 73% below 2019 levels, 63% below in Wales and almost 50% below in Scotland, reports the AP.

France reported 27,697 new cases of the coronavirus, Reuters reports.

Yesterday, the country recorded a record 104,611 Covid-19 infections on Saturday, surpassing the 100,000 threshold for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Arsenal football club at England announced that their next game against Wolves in the Premier League on Tuesday has been postponed due to “a number of Wolves squad players testing positive for Covid-19”.

The club said: “This match will be rescheduled in due course and any tickets and / or hospitality packages purchased for this match will be valid for the rescheduled date.”