United Kingdom, one in 10 people in London have been infected with Covid
Almost 2 million people have contracted Covid in the United Kingdom in the last 10 days with the primacy of London where, one in 10 people has been infected with the virus.
Impressive numbers, revealed by the Office for National Statistics and which perfectly photograph the English reality. For several days, in fact, the urban centers of the United Kingdom have literally emptied due to the high number of infections, while, according to some calculations, hundreds of thousands of people have spent the Christmas holidays in isolation.
According to the numbers released by the Office for National Statistics, in England 2.83% of the population is positive for Covid, about 1 for every 35 inhabitants, or 1.5 million people. The data refer to the week from 13 to 19 December, while the projections indicate a further increase in infections for the week of Christmas with the total number of current positives in the United Kingdom which, as mentioned, could touch or even exceed the quota. 2 millions.
The most affected city, as mentioned, is London where one in 10 people are positive for Covid. Although for several days already the wall of 100 thousand positives per day has been touched, at the moment the government does not seem willing to impose new restrictions.
British citizens, however, have imposed a sort of auto lockdown with urban centers that have literally emptied themselves for several days also for the fear of spending holidays with the family and running the risk of getting infected or infecting some relative or friend.
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