(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 10 - In the United Kingdom there has been a record of daily contagion from Covid since last January: 58,194 new cases and another 120 deaths have been registered, according to the latest official data from the health authorities.
Yesterday there were 50,867 infections and 148 deaths.
Contagions from the Omicron variant are also growing rapidly: 448 new casinos in the last 24 hours, bringing the total across the country to 1,265.
While Scotland is facing a "tsunami of infections" caused by the Omicron variant, according to the alarm launched by the prime minister, Nicola Sturgeon, after the surge in the country.
Scotland yesterday reported 5,018 positives to Covid 19. "These are the figures for a day, but this is a large increase from the average of about 2,800 a day that we recently reported," the premier said.
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