The number of Covid-19 cases continues to grow in the UK

Five deaths and 10,633 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the UK within 24 hours, according to updated data from the British government.

Portugal Digital with Lusa

As of Sunday (20), six deaths and 9,284 cases had been reported, but weekend figures were generally lower due to delays in processing.

In the last seven days, from June 15 to 21, the daily average was 11 deaths and 9,778 cases, an increase of 12.1% in the number of deaths and 31.4% in the number of infections seven days earlier.

The daily average for hospital admissions was 202 in the seven days from June 9 to 15, an increase of 39.6% over the previous seven days.

Since December, 43,127,763 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of the Covit-19 vaccine, which is equivalent to 81.9% of adults.

A total of 31,449,915 people, or 59.7% of adults, received the second dose.

Since the outbreak, 127,981 deaths have been reported from Govt-19 to a total of 4,640,507 infections in the UK.

The Govt-19 epidemic has caused at least 3,868,393 deaths worldwide, resulting in more than 178.4 million infections, according to the French company AFP.

In Portugal, 17,068 people died in 865,806 confirmed cases, according to a recent bulletin by the Directorate General of Health.