Covid: new peak in GB, over a thousand deaths and 62,000 infections

(ANSA) - LONDON, 06 JAN - New absolute record of deaths and contagions from Covid in the United Kingdom, struggling with the spread of the most virulent differences of the coronavirus that emerged this week. According to today's data, the cases recorded in the last 24 hours were 62,322 (albeit out of almost 500,000 swabs) and 1041 cases. Yesterday the government estimated, on the basis of British Istat statistics, that 2% of the population million people) became infected with Covid in just the week between December 27 and January 2. A share that even rises to one in 30 residents, around 3%, in London. (HANDLE).