Covid-19: encouraging figures in the United Kingdom

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When we look at the evolution of the epidemic in the United Kingdom, where the Omicron variant settled a few weeks ahead of France, there are good reasons to be hopeful.

In the United Kingdom, where the Omicron variant was established a few weeks earlier than in France, the number of contaminations is decreasing. Maëlys September, journalist France Televisions, is in duplex from London, Thursday January 13. Almost 130,000 new cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours. It’s almost 90,000 less than ten days ago”, Figures the journalist. Obviously, this decrease is encouraging, “but it could be a sham”, She specifies.

Indeed, the UK faces a testing shortage. And “the number of daily deaths due to the Coronavirus, it is increasing. 398 new deaths”Have been recorded in the last 24 hours. A figure that had not been reached in the country since February 2021. Hospitals are always overwhelmed”, Specifies the journalist, with some 2,200 daily admissions.

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