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US chief medical adviser Fauci warns Covid cases ‘will go much higher’

Rise in infections comes in wake of a shortage of PCR and rapid at-home tests, leading to long queues

President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser warned on Sunday that the number of Americans infected with Covid-19 was likely to “go much higher” before easing off in the new year.

Anthony Fauci told ABC News on Sunday that the “sheer volume of the number of cases . . . likely will go much higher” given the “extraordinarily contagious” nature of the Omicron coronavirus variant.

The latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that about three-quarters of new Covid cases in the US were linked to the new variant.

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