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During a news briefing on Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the simultaneous circulation of the Delta and Omicron COVID-19 variants is creating a "tsunami of cases."

"Delta and Omicron are now twin threats driving up cases to record numbers, leading to spikes in hospitalization and deaths," he said.

Tedros repeated his call for countries to share COVID-19 vaccines more equitably and warned the emphasis on boosters in richer countries could leave poorer nations short of jabs.

He said the WHO was campaigning for every country to hit a target of 70 per cent vaccine coverage by the middle of 2022, which would help end the “acute phase” of the pandemic.

New Year's Eve marks the second anniversary of China alerting the WHO to 27 cases of "viral pneumonia" of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan. More than 281 million people have since been reported to be infected globally and more than 5 million have died.

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