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According to the latest figures released on Saturday, the daily death toll from Covid-19 in Britain has fallen to a seven-month low. Ten percent of the British adult population received both doses of coronavirus vaccination. So far, the first dose has been given to more than 60 percent of people over the age of 18.
Ten have died across the country in the past 24 hours from Covid-19, according to a report from the UK Department of Health on Saturday. In Britain, such a low daily death rate has not been measured since September 14.
There were periods when Covid-19 had more than 1,300 deaths per day during the January peak of the coronavirus epidemic in Britain.
According to the ministry’s Saturday night summary, 254 people died from Covid-19 in the past seven days, 197, 43.7 percent less than the previous one-week period that ended last Saturday. The number of new cases of coronavirus infection is also decreasing significantly.According to the ministry on Saturday, 3,423 new cases have been identified with screening tests across the country in the last day. At the beginning of the year, more than 60,000 new infections were detected almost every day in Britain, in some cases almost 70,000 a day.
In a week ending Saturday, 27,912 coronavirus infections were identified through testing, 11,025, 28.3 percent less than the number of new infections detected in the same period a week earlier.
The number of new cases identified through screening is steadily slowing, despite the fact that education in primary and secondary schools in England resumed just a month ago and children must be screened for the coronavirus several times a week. . This increased the number of tests performed daily by 80 to 100 percent overnight. In the past week, more than 7 million coronavirus screenings were conducted across the country.
The number of second doses of vaccination against the coronavirus exceeded five million, the ministry said on Saturday.
107,420 people finished the day at zero o’clock on Saturday, and 31,425,682 have received the first dose of the vaccine since the first day of the vaccination campaign in the United Kingdom, which began on December 8.
The second dose was given to 246,631 the day before, bringing the number of people who had already received both doses to 5,205,505, almost 10 percent of the total British adult population.
The number of vaccines administered so far, including the first and second doses, has therefore exceeded 36.6 million in the UK.
Saturday’s data shows that more than 60 percent of adults have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.The UK government aims to have at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine available to all members over 50 by the end of July, and by the end of July, the entire British adult population – approximately 52.7 millions of people.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the other day that while fewer vaccines will arrive in Britain in April than the large supply of vaccines so far in April, vaccination targets will still be met on time.
In the UK, half of those vaccinated receive a vaccine developed jointly by the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca.Recently, the use of this vaccine has been restricted in several European countries due to concerns that the vaccine may increase the risk of blood clots.
However, a recent British Medicines Agency (MHRA) study found that more than 18 million doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine have so far been administered in the UK and that 30 of those vaccinated with this vaccine have a clot. blood, most of which is a rare form of cerebral thrombosis and seven patients died.
The authority emphasized that there was still no evidence of a causal link between the use of Oxford / AstraZeneca and cases of blood clots, but the data remained that the benefits of using this vaccine far outweighed the potential risks.
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock emphasized in a post posted on Twitter on Saturday that the vaccines used in Britain are safe and effective. Hancock asked all people called to get vaccinated to show up at vaccination sites and get the coronavirus vaccine.
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