(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 17 - The United Kingdom yesterday recorded over 40 thousand cases of coronavirus for the fourth consecutive day: this is what emerges from the data of the National Statistics Office, reports the Independent, according to which the infections are inconstant increase since beginning of October.
In the last 24 hours, infections have been 43,423, in yeast compared to 45,066 on last Thursday, the highest level since July.
According to estimates by the Bureau of Statistics, the country is nearing the peak marked during the second wave of the pandemic last winter. In fact, the data indicate the growing trend: in the week from October 4th to 10th, about one in 60 people in England had Covid compared to one in 70 in the previous week.
At the beginning of October, the positive cases were about 30,000 a day.
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