With 45% vaccinated, the UK faces a new spike in cases, but what about deaths?

The UK Department of Health confirmed today 26,068 new Covid-19 infections, its highest number of daily cases since January 29or, amid worsening numbers attributed to the expansion of the delta variant of the coronavirus.

Thus, the overall number of the country rose to 4,800,907 people infected since the start of the pandemic.

Also in the last 24 hours, 14 people died by the coronavirus, with which it amounts to 128,140 the total number of deaths due to the pandemic in the UK.

Regarding the progress of the British vaccination plan, more than 44.7 million people already have the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine – 84.9% of the population and more than 32.8 million – the 62.4% – have the complete diagram, point out Europapress.