(ANSA) - LONDON, JANUARY 03 - The United Kingdom scores other 157,758 infections from Covid under the pressure of the Omicron variant, but on more than one and a half million tests: that is, over the triple of those recorded in the last 24 hours in Italy.
Official figures certify that today include England and Scotland (90% of the British population) and non-Wales and Northern Ireland, which are late in collecting the latest updates.
On the other hand, deaths drop to 42, and the increase in the total number of hospitalized patients slows down, up to a recorded sum which for now remains below 12,000.
As for vaccines, the administration of the third dose now comprises 60% of the entire population of the Kingdom over 12 years.
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