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(ANSA) – LONDON, SEPTEMBER 21 – Coronavirus infections still exceed 4,000 in the UK in the last 24 hours. This is certified by the updated data published by the British government, according to which there are currently another 4368 cases, somewhat less than the post-summer peak of two days ago, while the number of deaths fell slightly to 11 and the total number of hospitalizations in The whole country is confirmation of just over 1000. Daily buffers are instead about 220,000, the highest level in absolute numbers in Europe, well above all other major countries on the continent and only surpassed by Denmark in relation to population, up to a total now 18 million.
Meanwhile, an ad hoc meeting of the Cobra government’s emergency committee has been called tomorrow, dedicated to the next steps to be taken to try to halt the rebound in root infections: a meeting extended by Boris Johnson to the heads of governments premises from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as requested by them and confirmed in a telephone conversation between the Conservative tenant of Downing Street and the Labor Prime Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford. Earlier, Johnson’s top science advisers, Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty, had raised the alarm about the resumption of infections, urging the British public to ‘change their minds’ on the need not to lower their guard on precautions and evoking new restrictive measures on contacts. in most of the territory of the Kingdom (where the Rt infection index has returned above the risk threshold 1), although with the apparent exclusion for now of the hypothesis of a general closure bis similar to that of last spring. Further restrictions will also be restored in two days in Scotland, as Edinburgh Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today. (HANDLE).
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