(ANSA) - LONDON, 05 JAN - New absolute record of infections from Covid in the United Kingdom, struggling with the spread of more virulent variants of the coronavirus that have emerged in recent weeks.
According to government data, the cases recorded in the last 24 hours were 60,916, for the first time over the 60,000 threshold, out of a daily total of swabs increased to nearly 465,000.
While the rise in the number of deaths to levels close to those of the spring peaks also alarms: 830 more from yesterday to today.
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