the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. sean, i will have a bit more for you later on, but that is all i have for now. thank you very much for that, look forward to speaking to you later. the latest government figures show that in the past 24 hours, five deaths were reported and 10,633 new infections were recorded. that means an average of 9,778 new cases per day in the last week. over 163,000 people received a first dose of the vaccine in the latest 24 hour period. more than 43.1 million people have now had theirfirstjab that s around 81.9% of uk adults. over 109,000 people have had their second dose of the vaccine in the latest 24 hour period, meaning more than 31.4 million people have now had both doses that s 59.7% of uk adults. the government is promising to give details in the next few weeks of a coronavirus vaccine booster programme for the autumn, after senior doctors said planning should be sped up. speaking on a visit
all right. before you assume this is another crying wolf story about money and politics, you have to understand a statistic that i m going to give to you that has turned a number of heads this week. campaign spending has just crossed a threshold that never seemed possible. house and senate campaigns have already spent more than $333 million. that includes outside groups, through january of this year. the outside spending on these campaigns, we re talking about the koch brothers, other billionaire bank rollers, left and right, that s already topped $41 million. add it all up, and we get a grand total of $374 million so far. so here s some perspective. compare that mountain of money so far to the overall total spent by george w. bush and al gore and everyone else who ran for president in 2000, just 14 years ago, they collectively spent $343.1 million, for their entire presidential campaign. 14 years later, look where we re at. get this, 2014 outside spending has eclipsed the outside