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• Omicron set to become dominant dominant in South Korea
• Hong Kong airport bans transit passengers from 153 nations
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'Alarm" in China at latest outbreak:
Al Jazeera’s Britt Clennett says China's concern is that cases from Tianjin, just 30 minutes by train from Beijing, could spread to the capital just as it is preparing to host the Winter Olympics.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers have gathered on the banks of India’s Ganges river for a holy dip despite a 30-fold rise in COVID cases in the past month ⤵️ aje.io/n3gpkc
US President Trump, who proposed forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza, says the next step for the ceasefire will be "up to Israel" in "consultation with me."
Al Jazeera Arabic have confirmed that the number of people killed in the Israeli bombing of the Dalloul family home in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood has risen to eight.
Medical sources in Gaza report dozens of Palestinians killed as Israeli bombings intensify and tanks advance in the besieged territory's north and south.
At least four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on two homes in the vicinity of Abu Diya Bakery, west of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
Israel attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut in a new wave of powerful air attacks overnight, while it continues its deadly bombardment across the besieged Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian man has been injured by live bullets in the chest during the Israeli forces' storming of the town of Aqqaba in the occupied West Bank, according to the report.
Two Palestinian journalist siblings, Ahmad Abu Sakhil and Zahra Abu Sakhil, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Fahd al-Sabah school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.