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The coronavirus pandemic spiraled out of control in UK. According to the latest bulletin, in the last 24 hours, around 40 thousand infections (39,237) have been registered throughout the country, one more example of the high transmission capacity of the new variant Covid-19 and ben 744 dead, the highest number of victims since April 29, for a total of 69,051 deaths since the start of the health emergency. For this, the Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, announced that as of Saturday, December 26, the feast of Saint Stephen, new restrictive measures will come into force for other areas of the country where the transmission of the infection is faster, with theRt indexThat is the virus’s transmissibility index, which rose between 1.1 and 1.3 precisely because of the new mutation.
Other “tier 4” areas in Santo Stefano
In fact, the government led by Boris Johnson has decided extend rigid lock, currently scheduled for London and Kent, where the new variant of the virus was discovered last week, to other areas of the country, with the application of the regime ”.Level 4“, that is, the maximum alert level, also in Sussex, to some parts of the the midlands of England and north of England. In all, six million people will return to observe a rigid block activities to prevent the spread of contagion from spreading further.
Discovery of another variant linked to South Africa
But the bad news for the British does not end there. During today’s press conference, Hancock also announced that a ‘another variant of Covid-19 has been identified in the UK, apparently related to the South Africa and called 501.V2, referring to two cases currently traced, in turn are contacts of cases that have arrived in the country in recent weeks. It is not the same variant, but it is practically a same which developed autonomously in South Africa. It is one development very worrying, because the mutation has a greater transmission capacity and would have already undergone mutations. For this reason, the British government has imposed immediate restrictions on arrivals from South Africa. “
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