A further 31,772 cases of COVID-19 and 26 deaths have been reported across the UK in the last 24-hour period.
The figures, released Sunday, against 32,367 cases and 34 deaths the day before – just below the cases recorded on Friday when the highest number of infections since January 22 was recorded.
Cases over the past week have increased by just over 27% from the previous week, while deaths have risen by two-thirds.
Another 93,763 people received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the UK on Saturday, bringing the total to 45,881,721 – 87.1% of the adult population.
A total of 211,446 people had their second vaccine, meaning that 34,764,511 (66% of adults) are now fully immunized.
The number of hospital admissions more than doubled (56.6%) in the last week for which data is available, with 563 people admitted to hospital on July 6 and 3,081 in the week to this date.
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Source: news.sky.com
This notice was published: 2021-07-11 14:26:00
