The UK’s Junior Health Minister, Gillian Keegan, said on Wednesday, December 22, that her country recorded 14 deaths and 129 hospitalized cases due to the fast-spreading Omicron variant, according to UK news outlet, media Sky news.
As of yesterday, the UK Health Security Agency released recent data via Twitter, detailing that 15,363 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases of the new variant have been reported across the country, bringing up the country’s total Omicron cases to 60,508 since the emergence of the new variant.
The UK is among the first countries to detect the first case of the new variant on November 27 and has seen a rapid spread of the Omicron variant in recent days.
The average number of new infections reported each day has reached a record high, with the UK currently reporting over 82,800 daily COVID cases nationwide, according to the latest Reuters’COVID Tracker, released on Wednesday, December 22.
Recently, the UK has declined to implement restrictive measures ahead of Christmas and New Year’s Eve, with the British Health Minister, Sajid Javid, asserting on Sunday, December 19, that he will refrain from adopting new health measures, saying “We are assessing the situation, it is very fast-moving,” he said, adding, “There are no guarantees in this pandemic I don’t think. At this point, we just have to keep everything under review.”
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