(ANSA) - LONDON, JAN 08 - New absolute peaks of infections and deaths from Covid in the United Kingdom, struggling with the spread of more virulent variants of the coronavirus that emerged in this week, which rise respectively to 68,053 and 1,325 in the last 24 hours according to today's data released by the British government.
While it is also a record of daily tests, which jump to almost 620,000. Meanwhile, the Rt index of spread of the infection - calculated before the third lockdown came into force - has been revised from 1.1-1.1.3 to 1-1.4, slightly down in the less affected territories, but in increase in the areas most affected by the new variant such as London. (HANDLE).