time to look at the latest official data on the pandemic in the uk. the latest coronavirus figures in the uk show there were just under 40,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. on average, there were nearly 43,000 new cases reported per day in the last week. the latest figures show there were over 7,500 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus yesterday. 159 deaths were recorded, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid i9 test. on average in the past week, 119 covid related deaths were recorded every day. on vaccinations, 18.2 million people have now had a boosterjab. the head of britain s secret intelligence service, m16, says that his team s main preoccupation at present is the threat posed by china. at present is the threat in a rare public appearance, richard moore warned that china had the capability to harvest data from around the world
also help track the spread of the variant here. we all want to know how much of a threat omicron poses, but it will be 2 3 weeks before science gives those answers. fergus walsh, bbc news. the government s latest coronavirus figures show there were 42,583 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. on average, there were just over 43,000 new cases reported per day in the last week. the latest figures show there were 7,530 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus on friday. 35 deaths were recorded that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid i9 test. on average in the past week, 120 covid related deaths were recorded every day. on vaccinations, nearly 17.9 million people have now had a boosterjab. since the discovery of the new variant, the government has introduced new regulations. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson has been looking at what those new rules are and how
requirements for quarantine, if you come from britain, the czech republic, the netherlands, egypt or malawi. not only will you have to show a negative covid i9 test but you will have to quarantine for ten days. you will have to quarantine for ten da s. ~ . you will have to quarantine for ten dam- ten days. we ve heard about these cases ten days. we ve heard about these cases in ten days. we ve heard about these cases in the ten days. we ve heard about these cases in the uk - ten days. we ve heard about these cases in the uk in - ten days. we ve heard about these cases in the uk in the| these cases in the uk in the last few hours. the cases seem to be growing across the world. growing very fast and on top of those dozen or so cases, 59 or so cases in south africa, if we look at where else cases have been recorded of omicron, four cases in botswana, two in hong kong, one case in belgium. germany, two cases, one in italy, two in the uk. there s been a suspected case in the czech
last month because these tests were considered to be too expensive and there was no variant of concern at that point, now that there is, this is being reintroduced. the other thing to bear in mind is if you do travel, you take one of these pcr tests, you have to self isolate until you get a negative result. you cannot ticket and go about your business. we have to wait until you get results back. the government s latest coronavirus figures show there were 39,567 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. that s mostly the delta variant. on average, there were nearly 44 thousand new cases reported per day in the last week. 131 deaths were recorded, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid i9 test. on average in the past week, 123 covid related deaths were recorded every day. on vaccinations, more than 17 million people have now had a boosterjab.
booster jabs. latest group who can get their covid boosterjabs- well, let s look at the situation in the uk in more detail, with the latest government coronavirus figures. they show there were 40,941 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. on average, 40,531 new cases were reported per day in the last week. 150 deaths were recorded, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid i9 test. on average, in the past week, 147 related deaths were recorded every day. and on vaccinations, more than 14.6 million people have now had their booster injection. there have been calls for calm in the united states after yesterday s court verdict that cleared a teenager of murder. 18 year old kyle rittenhouse had argued he was acting in self defence when he shot dead two men and injured a third during unrest last year over the police shooting of a black man.