(Reuters) -The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the disease. The government of New South Wales reported 210 new infections in Sydney and surrounding areas from the Delta variant outbreak. Olympics organisers reported 21 new COVID-19 cases related to the Games, bringing the total to 241 since July 1. Thailand also reported a daily record high of 18,912 new coronavirus infections, bringing its total cases to 597,287. COVID-19 infections have increased by 80% over the past four weeks in most regions of the world, WHO Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.

Source: MetroXpress July 31, 2021 14:15 UTC