New record of Covid infections in the United Kingdom. In fact, the latest bulletin records 58,194 new cases and another 120 deaths, against the 50,867 infections and 148 deaths of the previous update.
And Omicron variant infections are also growing rapidly: 448 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total across the country to 1,265.
The growth trend is of great concern to the British health authorities and has prompted the government of Boris Johnson to introduce the anti-Covid restrictions foreseen by plan B.
According to Professor Tim Spector, head of the Zoe Covid study, if the new variant appears to cause "milder" cold-like symptoms, its rapid rate of infection found "even in vaccinated" could still have "devastating" consequences.
A worrying situation, so much so that the Prime Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon speaks openly of a "tsunami of infections" caused precisely by the Omicron variant.
Scotland alone recorded 5,018 Covid 19 positives yesterday. "These are the figures for a day, but this is a sharp increase from the average of about 2,800 per day that we recently reported, precisely because of the much greater transmissibility and faster than this new variant, ”Sturgeon said.
(Unioneonline / lf)