The UK reported on Friday, New Year’s Day, another 53,285 positive aspects of covid-19 across the country in the last twenty-four hours after undergoing a laboratory test.
According to the latest updated data published by the British Ministry of Health, Also, 613 deaths were reported due to the disease.
These figures are slightly lower than those published on Thursday, when the daily record of coronavirus infection since the beginning of the pandemic (55,892) was reached and 964 deaths were reported.
With the new data, the total number of cases in the United Kingdom has increased since the beginning of the pandemic to 2,542,065, while the number of deaths has reached 74,125.
The United Kingdom continues to detect alarming levels of the virus, exacerbated by the emergence of a new strain that is even more contagious and has led to more areas in England being at the highest risk of a pandemic, with restrictions starting on Thursday. more strictly.
This crisis threatens the collapse of hospitals and has meant that secondary schools, universities and many primary schools have delayed their return to school – originally scheduled for next Monday – until the Christmas holidays by 18 January.
Despite the bad news, the UK is looking forward to the next day 4, when it will be able to fight the pandemic with two vaccines after the approval given this week for the preparation of Oxford and AstraZeneca by regulators, after authorizing Pfizer / BioNTech Compound.
Regulators are now in favor of administering the first doses “to as many people as possible as soon as possible.”