In one day, more than 41,000 new people were infected in Britain.

The highest daily number of coronavirus infections since the start of mass evaluations was recorded in Britain on Monday, the MTI writes.

According to Monday night’s report from the Health Department, 41,385 new infections have been identified by screening across the country in the past 24 hours. According to the data set, 256,720 people infected with coronavirus were tested by testing in the week ending Monday. This is 52,375, 25.7 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 infection, 357 patients have died from Covid-19 disease caused by a coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours.

In a week ending Monday, there were 3,493 deaths from the UK coronavirus epidemic, an increase of 278, up 8.6 percent from the same period last week.

By 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 the then very meager testing capacity of 15-20 thousand coronavirus tests per day is only a fraction of this. a few thousand could leak.

The number of daily coronavirus screenings across the country currently exceeds half a million, according to a report from the UK Department of Health on Monday night.
Since the beginning of March, more than 70,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Britain.

The British government announced the identification of a new variant of coronavirus before Christmas. Studies have shown that within the United Kingdom, the contagion, especially in London and the south-east of England, can infect up to 70% more than previously identified types.

Monday’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.

Yvonne doyle, the medical director of England’s Public Health Service, commenting on Monday’s data, called the high number of infections worrisome, especially given that the current winter months are the most difficult period for hospitals anyway. Professor Doyle, however, stressed that the vaccination campaign since early December had already shown hope on the horizon.

The UK is currently using a jointly developed vaccine between Pfizer and BioNTech, and the number of people vaccinated so far is approaching 700,000, but press reports on Monday suggest that UK pharmacovigilance could approve a joint vaccine between the Oxford University and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca starting this week.