Roughly 1.1 million people in private households in England had coronavirus between December 27 and January 2. London has the highest regional rate. Pictured: Percentage testing positive in London.
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If Israel was a rational country and Bibi a serious politician, it should end all lockdowns and all antidemocratic measures due to Covid-19 right now. Why? Firstly: The entire crisis is based on a controversial and hardly scholarly PCR test, and not on a threat to the entire society. Secondly: Only a tiny fraction of Israeli society is older than 65 years, according to Wikipedia some 10,5 per cent. But it has already vaccinated over 10 percent of its population, more than one million people.
Though the cases appear to be in Oxford, the geographic location is only approximate.
Places the new Covid strain has been found. Picture: COG-UK The variant has also been found in the South West, Midlands and North of England. Jeffrey Barrett, lead Covid-19 statistical geneticist at COG-UK,at a scientific breifing yesterday, warned there was a lag in the sequence data being sampled, so the most recent data was from the first week of December when England came out of the second national lockdown. The new variant led to London and parts of southern and eastern England being rushed into the new Tier 4 regime at the weekend, effectively cancelling Christmas plans and imposing measures similar to previous national lockdowns.
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It comes after a new variant of COVID-19, which is said to be 70 percent more infectious than previous strains, has already spread around the UK, with cases identified in Wales and Scotland. Boris Johnson and the Cabinet s Covid operations committee is meeting today to consider the latest data on the spread of the virus.