FRANCE - France records over two hundred thousand new daily cases of Covid and sets a new record since the start of the pandemic. 208,000 people have been infected in the last 24 hours, French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced to the National Assembly. Yesterday the country had registered 180,000 new cases.

UNITED KINGDOM - New record of cases also in the United Kingdom. The latest update released by the health authorities records 183,037 infections in 24 hours.

SCOTLAND - Scotland has also recorded a record of daily coronavirus infections since the beginning of the pandemic, reaching 15,849 cases, of which about 80% are represented by the Omicron variant. There are three other deaths in the last 24 hours, while 769 people are currently in hospital for Covid, including 36 in intensive care.

DENMARK - Denmark, the country with the highest rate of infection in relation to the population, records a new record of infections with 23,228 in the last 24 hours. The very high number of cases is also due to the enormous amount of swabs carried out in the days following Christmas. Indeed, the positivity rate remains stable. The previous record of Covid positives in Denmark was reached last Monday and was 16,164.

MALTA - The explosion of new infections from Covid continues also in Malta. In the last week there have been numbers never seen since the start of the pandemic. The new record, with 1.298 in 24 hours just set yesterday, was smashed today with 1.337. In proportion to the resident population, it is as if over 160 thousand had been registered in Italy. The maximum of new daily positivity in the previous phases was 510 on 10 March.

UNITED STATES - The United States has recorded 380,751 new cases of Covid in the past 24 hours. An increase that raises the weekly average of daily cases to 267,305, beyond the previous record of January 2021 of 251,232 cases.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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