Covid-19: more than 150,000 dead in the United Kingdom since the start of the pandemic

The United Kingdom recorded 313 new deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number of people who have died in the country since the start of the pandemic to 150,057.

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According to figures published by the government, 146,390 cases of contamination have been recorded in 24 hours, a figure that has fallen since Tuesday's record, while pressure is building on hospitals in the midst of the wave of the highly contagious Omicron variant.