The figures released by the British Ministry of Health raise the total number of deaths in the United Kingdom to 41,499 since the pandemic began, among more than 334 thousand confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus.
The significant increase in the number of daily contagions was released at a time when criticism of the way British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been managing the pandemic continues.
The increase in new cases of covid-19 also appears when academics and university unions claim to fear a new wave of infections when students return to face-to-face classes in September.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 843,000 deaths and infected more than 25 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to an assessment by the French agency AFP.
Italy
From Saturday to today, four people have died, bringing the total number of deaths in Italy to 35,477 since the beginning of the pandemic, which has already infected 268,218 people in the country.
Authorities today registered an increase in the number of people hospitalized, 1,337, 90 more than on Saturday, and of these, 86 are hospitalized in intensive care units, seven more than the day before.
As in previous occasions, when the authorities attributed daily increases to a greater number of tests carried out, the decrease registered today is attributed to a reduction of the tests carried out in the last 24 hours, 81,000 against 99,000 on Friday.
The regions with the most new cases today are Campania (south), whose capital is Naples, with 270, and Lombardy (north), the most affected region in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, with 235.
In Campania, almost half of the new cases (125) were diagnosed in people who returned from vacation, 58 of which were from Sardinia, the new major focus of the pandemic in Italy, and 67 from other countries.
Sardinia, which had remained largely untouched by the coronavirus, became a focus from the summer with the arrival of tourists.
From Friday to today, 22 new cases were detected on the island, after the 70 recorded on Saturday, bringing the total to 2,114 cases and 134 deaths associated with covid-19 in this region.
Those infected are mainly tourists, and there are about 300 people in isolation in apartments and hotels.
Germany
Germany recorded 785 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, just over half the day before (1,479) and an average of 1,500 cases / day in the last two weeks.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, the entity responsible for disease prevention and control in Germany, from Saturday to today 785 infections were diagnosed and six deaths associated with covid-19 were recorded.
The country has recorded an average of 1,500 cases / day in recent weeks. Last Saturday, 2,034 new infections were diagnosed, the highest level since late April.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Germany has totaled 241,771 cases and 9,295 deaths.
The maximum peak of the pandemic in Germany occurred between late March and April, when 6,000 new cases were registered per day.
At the end of June, the new cases were in the order of 350 a day, starting to increase to 800 to 950 in July and surpassing 1,000 in the beginning of August.
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