New outbreak of coronavirus contaminations in the United Kingdom.
The country recorded, Wednesday, January 6, 1,041 additional deaths, the daily toll exceeding a thousand deaths for the first time since April.
The United Kingdom, one of the countries in Europe most bereaved by the epidemic, now has a total of 77,346 deaths due to Covid-19 and 2,836,801 cases of contamination (+62,322), according to the Ministry of Health .
The country, confronted for several weeks with a new highly contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2, also reported 62,322 new cases of coronavirus contamination, against 60,916 the day before.
For its part, neighboring Ireland, also facing a "tsunami" of contamination with the new coronavirus, decided on Wednesday to close at least until the end of the month its schools, thus further tightening the confinement reinstated after Christmas .
"From today and at least until the end of January," "all schools must remain closed and teaching must be done online," Prime Minister Micheal Martin said.
With AFP
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