- Department of Health bosses today posted 5,455 more coronavirus infections and 104 confirmed fatalities
- It is the lowest daily case toll since September 28, and the fewest Covid victims recorded since October 26
- For comparison, 10,641 coronavirus cases and 178 deaths were announced by the Government last Monday
Britain’s Covid outbreak is continuing to shrink rapidly, with daily infections having almost halved in a week to the lowest levels since September.
Deaths have also plunged by 42 per cent, according to the Government’s own figures that will pile more pressure on Boris Johnson to consider easing draconian lockdown restrictions sooner.
Department of Health bosses today posted 5,455 more infections and 104 fatalities. It is the lowest daily case toll since September 28, and the fewest victims since October 26. For comparison, 10,641 coronavirus cases and 178 deaths were announced last Monday.
With a catalogue of data showing the second wave is firmly in retreat, anti-lockdown Tory MPs are demanding that lockdown must be lifted sooner. No 10 has promised all restrictions will go by June 21 at the earliest, so long as the vaccine drive is successful and continues rolling out hundreds of thousands of doses a day.
Britain’s vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi today claimed the Covid inoculation rollout could go at twice its current speed over the next three months. He promised March would be a ‘very big month’ for the programme. Another 185,000 first doses were dished out yesterday — up by almost a third week-on-week.
It comes after the Prime Minister insisted the Brazil coronavirus variant will not derail his lockdown ‘roadmap’ as he vowed a ‘massive effort’ to stop it spreading further. He played down the dangers amid a huge hunt after health officials admitted they do not know the identity of one of the people infected with the worrying strain.
Six cases of the P.1 variant first detected in the Amazonian city of Manaus have been confirmed in Britain — three in England and three in Scotland.
Two were tracked to South Gloucestershire but the third English case has not been located and may be anywhere in the nation because they failed to fill in personal details when they were tested for Covid. Public Health England has said it is working with the postal service trying to track where the kit had been sent.
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