(ANSA) - LONDON, 12 JUL - There are 34,471, the third highest peak since mid-January after the more than 35,000 and 37,000 recorded on 6 and 7 July, the new daily cases of Covid in the United Kingdom, now 99% fueled on the island by Delta variant imported from India. This is certified, on 1.1 million swabs, by the official data released today by the government on the sidelines of the confirmation by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a briefing from Downing Street of the end of the residual restrictions imposed by law in the country starting from 19 July; but with a renewed appeal to "caution" and individual responsibility in the face of a threat, that of the pandemic, which - BoJo remarked - is not yet behind us.
The effect attributed to vaccines (with almost 81 million doses now administered in the Kingdom) continues to maintain for now at lower levels - waiting to verify the alarms on the potential consequences of crowding allowed on the occasion of the semifinals and the final of the Wembley of the European Football Championships. - both the increase in hospitalizations and above all that of deaths: the latter have decreased in the last 24 hours to no more than 6 against the 26 recorded yesterday, albeit against the background of a lightened figure on Monday by the traditional delay of part of the statistical data referring to the weekend. (HANDLE).
