Covid Gb today, over 16 thousand infections: record new cases since the beginning of February

There are 16,135 new Covid infections in the last 24 hours in the United Kingdom. It is the highest number of positives since last February 6 when 18,262 were recorded. The UK health ministry also reported 19 deaths, bringing the number of positive people to 4,667,870. Since the beginning of the pandemic the deaths have been 128,027. The situation in Great Britain has worsened in recent weeks, with an increase in daily infections attributed to the expansion of the ‘Delta’ variant of Sars-Cov-2, detected for the first time in India. In fact, just over 9,000 cases had been registered last Wednesday. As for the immunization plan, more than 43.4 million people in the UK have already received at least one dose of the vaccine, or 82.5% of the population.