UK touches new record for COVID-19 cases daily cases

UK touches new record for COVID-19 cases daily cases. 

London: Britain reported another day of COVID-19 records on Friday. New estimates show that large portions of London’s population are infected and underscoring the constant advancement in the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

The rapid spread of Omicron has caused the number of cases to increase over the past seven days, particularly within the capital.

A one-in-20 Londoners likely suffered from COVID-19 on the 16th of December. Preliminary estimates – which may still be updated. 

The possibility that it could have increased to 1 in 10 on Sunday, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed on Friday.

Numerous transport and industry sectors face staff shortages as sick people self-segregate. At the same time, the hospitals of Britain have been warned about the possibility of a negative adverse impact on the safety of patients.

But the Boris Johnson, the Prime Chief Minister Boris Johnson, who has invested a lot of political capital in 2021’s Christmas to be “considerably better” than the previous year, on Tuesday decided to rule out any new restrictions before the actual day, saying that there was no certainty about the degree of Omicron and the rate of hospitalization.

The government data revealed 122,186 new cases in the past week, up from 119.789 on Thursday and marking the third day with issues in over 100,000.

Recent research on Omicron indicates that the drug has a lower incidence of hospitalization than previous COVID-19 variants. However, health officials have remained cautious regarding the future.

“There is a glimmer of Christmas hope… but it isn’t yet at the point where we could downgrade that serious threat,” Jenny Harries, director of the UK Health Security Agency, said to the BBC.

“What we have got now is an outstanding balance between something that looks like a lower risk of hospitalization – which is great news – but equally a highly transmissible variant and one that we know evades some of our immune defenses.”

The government on Friday announced 137 deaths in the first 28 days of positive COVID-19 tests compared to 147 on Thursday, making the total for the outbreak to 147,857. It is the highest number in Europe.

The ONS stated that prevalence increased across the entire United Kingdom, with Scotland having the lowest prevalence of infection at one per 65 on the 19th of December.

The ONS estimates suggested that one of 35 people in England, equivalent to 1.54 million people, was infected by COVID-19 over the six days leading up to the 19th of December.

The first models of subsequent days suggested that it could be over 2 million people on Sunday, which is around 1 per 25.