UK Sees Highest Ever Daily Covid Cases Amid Omicron Spread

London:

The UK recorded its highest day by day coronavirus instances because the begin of the pandemic on Wednesday as a senior British well being chief stated there could possibly be a “staggering” rise in instances over the subsequent few days.

An additional 78,610 COVID-19 infections had been reported, about 10,000 greater than the earlier excessive reported in January.

Greater than 11 million individuals have now examined constructive for the illness in the UK, which has a complete inhabitants of round 67 million.

With a brand new extremely transmissible Omicron variant of the virus surging throughout Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of a “tidal wave” of infections.

Nonetheless, he suffered a blow to his authority on Tuesday when greater than 100 of his lawmakers voted in opposition to measure to curb the growing unfold of the illness.

Jenny Harries, chief government of the UK Well being Safety Company, earlier known as the Omicron variant “in all probability probably the most vital risk” because the begin of the pandemic.

“The numbers that we see on knowledge over the subsequent few days might be fairly staggering in comparison with the speed of development that we have seen in instances for earlier variants,” she informed a parliamentary committee.

Harries stated the brand new variant of the virus has a doubling time “which is shortening” and is now below two days in most areas in Britain, with its development charge was being notable in London and Manchester specifically.

Greater than 10,000 instances of Omicron have been recorded, with at the very least 10 individuals hospitalised. One individual has died after contracting the variant, which is about to grow to be the dominant pressure in London.

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