On the evening of Tuesday December 28 in Britain, even without data from Northern Ireland, recorded more than 138 thousand new infections of coronavirus, which is a new record for the entire epidemic in the country.
This was reported by The Guardian.
In England, Scotland and Wales registered 138,831 new cases. The lion's share of cases, 117,000, falls on the most populous England, but for Scotland and Wales as well, the numbers were highs.
There are 9,546 coronavirus patients in hospitals, the most since March. At the same time, this is much less than the peak in January 2021 - 34 thousand, and it is also worth considering that in that wave, daily infection rates were several times lower.
At the same time, health experts say that the Omicron strain causes "not the same disease as a year ago."
As Oxford University professor John Bell told Oxford University in a commentary, "the strain causes a less serious course of the disease and people who do end up in the hospital stay there for much less time." Daily death records, he said, "can already be considered history."
A day earlier, Downing Street assured that it had no plans to further tighten quarantine restrictions before the New Year.
