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The highest daily number of coronavirus infections since the start of mass screening tests was recorded in Britain on Tuesday. According to a report from the Department of Health Tuesday night, 36,804 new infections have been identified through screening tests across the country in the past 24 hours. According to the data set, 222,199 coronavirus infections were proven by testing in the week ending Tuesday. This is 84,323, 61.2 percent more than the number of new infections detected in the same period a week earlier.
According to the British government’s calculation methodology, which takes into account deaths within 28 days of being diagnosed with coronavirus infection, 691 patients have died from Covid-19 disease caused by coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours. . In the week ending Tuesday, there were 3,400 deaths in the UK coronavirus epidemic, an increase of 526, up 18.3 percent from the same period last week.
According to retrospective calculations, in April, at the time of the UK’s spring peak, the number of new coronavirus infections per day likely exceeded one hundred thousand, but with the then very limited testing capacity of 15-20 thousand tests of coronavirus per day, just a fraction of this. , a few thousand could leak every day. According to a report from the UK Department of Health on Tuesday night, there have been 423,675 tests for coronavirus across the country in the last 24 hours, nearly 48.5 million since the end of April, and 2.1 million tests. have been positive so far. Since the beginning of March, 68,304 people have died from Covid-19 disease in Britain.
The UK government announced the identification of a new variant of coronavirus last week. Studies have shown that within the UK, the contagion, especially in London and the south-east of England, can infect up to 70% more than previously identified types. Tuesday’s presentation from the UK Department of Health does not detail how much the new strain of coronavirus may have influenced the rise in daily and weekly infections.
At the same time, however, more than 50 countries announced that they would suspend flights from Britain until Tuesday, although the European Commission on Tuesday asked EU member states to lift the ban. However, for almost two days, the French authorities have not accepted cargo from the British side.
The French measure applies to vehicles used by people (drivers, traveling staff, passengers) to cross France. The French authorities continue to allow the crossing of unmanned freight trains, containers and truck trailers without a tractor. Due to the short circuit, 2,852 trucks were crammed Tuesday night in a temporary parking lot on the motorway to the South East England ferry port of Dover and at a nearby disused airport. According to reports from UK road transport organizations, the vast majority of drivers do not receive regular care, do not have access to hygienic facilities and sleep in the cab of their vehicle.
The day before, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he had contacted French President Emmanuel Macron, who promised a quick solution to the situation. According to unofficial information, the French side would subject the admission of truckers to a rapid test for coronavirus, but no announcement of this or any other solution was announced until Tuesday night.
The British Retail Federation (BRC) said on Tuesday that if trucks stuck in congestion could not get back on track within 24 hours and thus were not picking up food shipments that would be imported from Spain and Portugal, it could have ‘problems’ with fresh food supplies in the UK after Christmas. (MTI)
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