UK: five deaths and 2,235 cases in 24 hours
The UK has recorded five COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, as well as 2,235 new cases, according to the latest UK government data.
Over the past seven days, from May 17 to today, there have been an average of six deaths and 2,531 cases per day per day, which corresponds to a 43.2% decrease in deaths but an 11.3% increase in deaths. the previous seven days.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 127,721 COVID-19 deaths out of 4,462,538 confirmed cases in the country.
Since the start of vaccination in December, 37,943,681 people have been immunized with the first dose of covid-19 vaccine, which is 72% of the adult population, according to the latest data.
The second dose was received by 22,643,417 people, about 43% of the adult population.
France, with fewer than 10,000 new cases, 70 new deaths every day
French authorities have registered 9,704 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, down from the previous days as there was also a decrease in the number of hospitalized patients, but a total of 70 new deaths.
On its daily data portal, the French CEO announced today that 5,603,666 people have been infected since the start of the pandemic.
The number of new official deaths has also declined, with 70 deaths attributable to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, fewer than the 89 cases reported Saturday.
In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, the French authorities have accounted for 108,569 deaths due to the disease.
The situation in hospitals has also improved, continuing the trend observed since mid-April.
Today 19,720 patients have been hospitalized, which is 45 less than on Saturday. This is far from the figure that was recorded at the peak of the second wave in November (33,500) or the third, in April (31,000).
Likewise, the number of patients in intensive care units has also decreased, and now there are 3,515 patients in this situation, which is 29 less than on Saturday.
In terms of vaccination against covid-19, France has administered at least one dose of 23,081,274 people, which is 34.5% of the population.
French health authorities have completed a two-dose immunization protocol for 9,706,333 people, which is about 14% of the population.
According to a report by the French agency AFP, the covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,456,282 deaths worldwide as a result of more than 166.2 million infections.
The disease is transmitted by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), discovered at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
