On the 21st local time, the latest statistics from the Ministry of Health of the United Kingdom showed that in the past 24 hours, there were 5,2009 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United Kingdom. This is the first time since mid-July that the number of new confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 50,000.
On the same day, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to arrange for a third shot of the new crown vaccine as soon as possible.
Johnson said that despite the high number of cases, the government is "continuing its epidemic prevention plan" and the situation is much better now than a year ago.
He pointed out that this is largely due to the widespread vaccination.
(Headquarters reporter Liang Tao)