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He The United Kingdom registered 41,385 new infections this Monday Covid-19 and others 357 deaths, as reported by the British health authorities, who have warned that the high level of cases is unprecedented.
The authorities have expressed concern about the infections in the south and southeast of England, that experts associate with the appearance of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
These data do not include those for Scotland and Northern Ireland, which do not plan to make the coronavirus figures public until tomorrow.
This is the first time the daily number of infections in the United Kingdom exceeds the barrier of 40,000, according to experts.
The medical director of Health in England, Yvonne Doyle, said Monday that, “despite unprecedented levels of infections, hope is on the horizon, “in clear reference to the vaccination program launched this month in the UK.
INCREASE IN HOSPITALIZATIONS
Doyle asked the population to help stop the spread of the virus, because “hospitals are (at the moment) most vulnerable, with new admissions increasing in all regions. “
Hospitals in the southeast of England are under increasing pressure from the sharp increase in infections.
The Ambulance services in south-east England, where the British variant of the coronavirus was detected, are receiving about 8,000 emergency calls a day, levels not seen since the peak of cases in the first wave last April.
The latest figures available indicate that up to on the 22nd there were 21,286 people hospitalized for Covid-19 in the United Kingdom, but it is estimated that this figure has increased in recent days.
He London Ambulance Service (LAS) revealed to the chain BBC who received a total of 7,918 emergency calls on the 26th, up 2,500 from the same day last year.
The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Katherine Henderson, said Monday that there are difficulties in taking patients to hospital wards and that the income level is “incredibly high”.
London and many counties in southern and eastern England they are in the risk level 4 of Covid-19 -grave-, which has forced the closure of non-essential stores, gyms, cinemas, hairdressers, beauty salons, while the population has been asked to avoid using public transport and stay at home.
Meanwhile, it is expected that British regulators approve this week the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical AstraZeneca, which will accelerate the immunization program for the British population, which began on the 8th with the Pfizer / BioNTech preparation.
