UK ONS: nearly 3.5 million infections in the UK in the last week

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The UK Covid horror show continues….

The latest coronavirus numbers from the UK Office of National Statistics show that nearly 3.5 million people were infected with Covid in the last week, that’s more than one in twenty people in every area of the country.

  • The percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) continued to increase across the UK.
  • In England, the estimated number of people testing positive for COVID-19 was 2,873,600 (95% credible interval: 2,754,900 to 2,991,100), equating to 5.27% of the population, or around 1 in 19 people.
  • In Wales, the estimated number of people testing positive for COVID-19 was 183,500 (95% credible interval: 155,800 to 215,300), equating to 6.04% of the population, or around 1 in 17 people.
  • In Northern Ireland, the estimated number of people testing positive for COVID-19 was 107,600 (95% credible interval: 86,900 to 129,700), equating to 5.86% of the population, or around 1 in 17 people.
  • In Scotland, the estimated number of people testing positive for COVID-19 was 334,000 (95% credible interval: 287,400 to 382,300), equating to 6.34% of the population, or around 1 in 16 people.

Both the ONS and the ZOE Covid figures show that Great Britain is in the middle of its biggest ever Covid wave, as we pointed out just a few days ago.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has killed between six and eighteen million people worldwide, with at least 200,000 of those deaths occurring in Britain, and yet still the virus is allowed to run rampant through schools, offices and the community with no attempt at mitigation.

There seems to be no appetite whatsoever by the British government to prevent the transmission of this virus amongst the population, nor any willingness to assess the dangers of deadlier strains of the virus appearing.

Predicting the result of this policy of neglect isn’t difficult – it will be utterly catastrophic. We can only hope that, one day, there will be restitution for the victims of this act of wilful genocide.

 

 

ZOE latest Covid case count:

 

UK.gov hospitalizations:

 

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, UK 15 July 2022

 

 

UK: New pandemic-high record for Covid cases

 

 

 

** This post was originally published on July 15, 2022 **