LONDON The U.K. has recorded its most coronavirus virus-related deaths since April. In its daily update, the British government said another 744 people have died 28 days after testing positive for COVID-19, the highest level since April 29. That takes the U.K.’s total up to 69,051, Europe’s second-highest behind Italy. If current trends continue, the U.K. looks set to overtake Italy to once again become Europe’s worst-hit country. It also said another 39,237 new infections have been identified, the most recorded. However, comparisons with the early days of the pandemic are difficult as
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BERLIN Undertakers in Saxony say crematoria in the eastern German state are reaching their limits because of the number of COVID-related deaths there.
German news agency dpa quoted the head of the regional undertakers association, Tobias Wenzel, as saying on Wednesday that his members are particularly worried about the Christmas public holidays.
He said waiting times for bodies to be cremated have doubled from five to ten days.
Wenzel told dpa that its’s not an option to take bodies out of state or even across the border to the neighboring Czech Republic.
Saxony has had a disproportionately high share of Germany’s deaths linked to the coronavirus 2,409 since the start of the outbreak or almost a tenth of the nationwide total.
LONDON British Health Secretary Matt Hancock says scientists have identified another new variant of the coronavirus in two people, both of whom are contacts of recent arrivals from South Africa.
Hancock told a press briefing that anyone who has been in South Africa in the past two weeks, together with their close contacts, have to quarantine themselves “immediately.”
Hancock said the evidence collated so far suggests that the new variant has “mutated further” than the one that recently prompted the British government to tighten restrictions across large parts of England and which led to many countries imposing travel bans on the U.K.