Covid today Gb, record infections in England and Wales: 129,471 in one day

The Omicron variant is rampant in the UK marking a record of Covid infections – with 129,471 new cases reported today in England and Wales – although no official data has been provided for Scotland and Northern Ireland, reports the Guardian. Despite the incomplete nature of the data, the total number of infections reported today for England and Wales is higher than the previous record for the whole of the UK.The UK Health Security Agency has recorded 17,269 new cases of Omicron variant contagion in the last 24 hours. A lower than actual figure, he pointed out, because sequencing is not performed for all tests and Scotland does not distinguish cases based on variant. The number of deaths attributed to Omicron has risen to 49, there are 668 hospitalizations of patients infected with the new variant. Of the infections attributed to Omicron 16,133 have emerged in England, 1136 in Northern Ireland.