Britain reports 200,000 daily COVID-19 cases
Britain has reported 218,724 COVID-19 cases in the latest 24-hour period, exceeding 200,000 daily cases for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain now stands at 148,941, with 14,126 COVID-19 patients still in hospital and the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 13,641,520.
British Health Secretary that, there’s nothing in data at this point that suggests that Britain needs to move away from Plan B, which includes guidance to work from home and mandatory face masks in most public indoor venues.
“The British government is not planning to cut the isolation period from seven days to five days, as the United States has done,” he said.
NHS will be under considerable pressure in the coming weeks amid the wave of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “No question Omicron continues to surge through the country.
“I think we’ve got to recognize that the pressure on our NHS, on our hospitals, is going to be considerable in the course of the next couple of weeks, and maybe more.”
More than 90 percent of people aged 12 and over in Britain have had their first dose of vaccine and around 82 percent have received both doses, according to the latest figures. More than 59 percent have received booster jabs, or the third dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
To bring life back to normal, countries such as Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States have been racing against time to roll out coronavirus vaccines.
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