(ANSA) - LONDON, DEC 15 - There is a boom in Covid infections in the United Kingdom: 78,610 cases have been recorded, an absolute daily record since the beginning of the pandemic, with 165 deaths, an increase compared to the 150 yesterday, While Omicron infections are almost doubled, rising from 4,671 to 10,017.
Today the record for third doses administered was also marked, 656,711, in what the British government called the "race between vaccines and the virus".
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