Malaysia reported another 5,806 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight Thursday, bringing the national total to 2,644,027, according to the health ministry.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel says the country will tighten restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus and will seek to make vaccination mandatory as early as February next year.
India's COVID-19 tally rose to 34,606,541 on Thursday, as 9,765 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry's latest data showed.
Malaysia reported another 5,439 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight Wednesday, bringing the national total to 2,638,221, according to the health ministry.
Public health authorities in the US have reported their first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. They confirmed the case in California. They say the individual is a traveler who returned to the US from South Africa.
