The balance sheet continues to grow on the other side of the Channel. While 1,325 deaths had already been reported on January 8, the United Kingdom recorded this Tuesday, January 19, 1,610 additional deaths, according to the Department of Health. A record figure since the start of the pandemic which brings the country’s total death toll to 91,470 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the ministry said. Starting a decline for several days, the number of cases recorded in 24 hours rose to 33,355, bringing the total of people tested positive to 3,466,849.
Reconfined for the third time since the beginning of January, with a health service under very strong pressure, the United Kingdom is facing an outbreak of contaminations attributed to a variant of the new coronavirus considered to be much more contagious by the British health authorities. In the hope that the restrictions can be relaxed very gradually, the British government has launched an ambitious mass vaccination program, with the goal of immunizing 15 million people by mid-February, including caregivers and all over 70 years old. According to the Department of Health, more than 4.26 million people had already received a first dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech or AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine on Monday since the campaign was launched on December 8. The number of people immunized with two doses is more than 456,000. According to a study published on Tuesday, January 19, one in 8 people has been infected with the coronavirus in England.
Screw tower in Germany
In unison with the planet, Germany was preparing for its part to extend and toughen measures to contain the coronavirus. Chancellor Angela Merkel was consulting with the leaders of the 16 regional states for a new turn of the screw. The meeting was brought forward due to fears related to mutations in the virus and worrying statistics on contamination, despite the closure of schools and “non-essential” businesses since one month. As for the vaccination campaign, organized in record time at the end of December, criticism is now fired at the supposed slowness of its implementation, with 1.4% of the German population vaccinated to date.
Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom are the countries which recorded the most new deaths in their last daily reports, with respectively 989, 1385 and 1610 new deaths. With 218 deaths recorded on Tuesday, Portugal, a country of 10 million inhabitants, has also reached a new record, and has also become the country in the world with the most infected recorded in relation to its population.
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