Ireland reports record levels of Covid-19 – how is everywhere else coping?

A health worker collects a swab sample of a woman to test for Covid-19 at a market in Jammu, India.

Ireland is just one of several countries globally to have reported record-breaking levels of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

The World Health Organisation has said that the ongoing spread of the highly-transmissible Omicron variant has resulted in a “tsunami of cases” worldwide.