The number of people in the UK tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 rose by 6% in the week to 21 November.
Officials of the British National Health Service (NHS) warn of the risk of a “double” pandemic, coronavirus and flu, which will greatly increase the pressure on the hospital system.
The number of new coronavirus cases in the UK has broken its barrier again of a million on a weekly basisfueling concerns expressed about a new, winter wave, according to official data released yesterday Friday.
The number of people in the UK tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 rose by 6% in the week to 21 November. The previous year, their number was 972,000, according to the British statistical service (Office for National Statistics, ONS).
It was the first increase in cases since the week ending October 17.
At the same time, it has started 40% increase in hospital patients due to flu, according to the NHS.
According to the data compiled by the website Our World in Data, Britain counts more than 212,000 deaths due to complications of COVID-19 out of a total of some 24 million recorded infections from SARS-CoV-2.
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