Almost all of Europe struggling with a leap in Covid infections, driven by the Omicron variant.
In the last 24 hours, the UK has recorded a new record of cases: 122,186, over 2,000 more
compared to yesterday, according to data released by the government. The number of infections increased by 48% in the past 7 days, compared with the previous week.
On the other hand, 94,124 new cases of Covid have been registered in France in the last 24 hours, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, according to data released by the health authorities. There are 169 deaths and bring the total number of deaths to 122,462.
On the other hand, infections in Germany are decreasing. According to today's December 24 bulletin, 35,431 new infections have been registered, compared to 50,968 a week ago.
The incidence per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days is 265.3 cases compared to 265.8 yesterday, according to reports from the Robert Koch Institute.
The figure was 331.8 a week ago, up from 404.5 a month ago. In the last 24 hours there have also been another 370 deaths (437 a week ago).
(Unioneonline / lf)
