Covid: GB, in July reached peak deaths since April

(ANSA) - LONDON, AUGUST 03 - The weekly number of deaths caused by Covid in England and Wales reached 327 on 23 July, i.e. the peak since mid-April, according to the updated calculations of the ONS (Office for National Statistics), the British equivalent of 'Istat, referring to all deaths linked in the death certificates to the pandemic as cause or contributing cause.

    The data, released today and relating to the phase of the greatest surge in infections caused by the new Delta variant in the United Kingdom (now down again), nevertheless confirms a much lower proportion of victims compared to that of the previous waves of infection: with an average no higher than one fifty deaths a day, against hundreds and hundreds at the beginning of the year. A slowdown made possible according to numerous experts by the at least partial immune barrier guaranteed by vaccines, which in these last weeks in the Kingdom have reached well over 80 million doses administered, with more than 70% of the entire adult population over 18 residing in the country already covered with the complete vaccination cycle and nearly 90% with the first dose. (HANDLE).