South Korea daily cases top 7,000 for first time; ‘stealth’ version of Omicron ‘cannot be detected by routine tests’; Boris Johnson staff filmed joking about No 10 party
- WHO Europe: jab young children to cut Covid risk at Christmas
- Moderna or Novavax after AstraZeneca jab confers high immunity: study
- Up to 6m eligible Britons may not have had a jab. Who are they?
- Podcast: How fast is the Omicron variant spreading?
- See all our coronavirus coverage
Germany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19 and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths.
South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinated as case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.