(ANSA) - LONDON, SEPTEMBER 21 - Coronavirus infections still over 4000 in the United Kingdom in the last 24 hours.
This is certified by the updated data released by the British government, according to which another 4,368 cases are registered today, slightly less than the post-summer peak of two days ago, while the number of deaths drops slightly to 11 and the total hospitalizations in the whole country are confirmed to be just over 1000 The daily tampons, on the other hand, are about 220,000, the highest level in absolute numbers in Europe, largely higher than all the other large countries of the continent and second only to Denmark in relation to the population, up to a total that now exceeds 18 million.
Meanwhile, an ad hoc meeting of the Cobra government emergency committee has been convened tomorrow, dedicated to the next measures to be taken to try to stop the rebound of contagis in the bud: a meeting extended by Boris Johnson to the heads of local governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as requested by them and as confirmed in a telephone conversation between Tory tenant of Downing Street and Welsh Labor First Minister Mark Drakeford. Previously Johnson's chief scientific leaders, Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty, had raised the alarm over the resumption of infections, urging the British population to "change their minds" on the need not to let their guard down on precautions and calling for new restrictive measures on social contacts in much of the country. territory of the Kingdom (where the infection index Rt is back above the risk threshold 1), although with the apparent exclusion for now of the hypothesis of a general lockdown bi-similar to that of last spring. Further restrictions will also be reinstated within two days in Scotland, as announced today by the first minister of Edinburgh, NicolaSturgeon. (HANDLE).