An average of 2,106,118 new daily infections were reported over the seven-day period, shortly after the one million case threshold was passed in the week of December 23-29, 2021. New global case numbers have soared by 270 per cent since the highly contagious Omicron variant was discovered in South Africa.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/world-tops-two-million-new-daily-covid-cases-afp-tally/articleshow/88777602.cms