As of Friday, 6,968 new cases and 66 deaths had been reported.
Early in the evening, the British Ministry of Health indicated on its website that due to technical problems, “now resolved”, there had been a delay in the publication of a series of covid-19 cases related to England.
“This means that the total reported over the next few days will include some additional cases from the period between September 24 and October 1, increasing the number of reported cases,” indicated a brief note published earlier in the evening on the ministry’s online page .
The cumulative total since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic in the UK is now 480,017 confirmed cases of contagion and 42,317 deaths within 28 days after a positive test.
The pandemic of the covid-19 disease has already claimed more than one million deaths and more than 34.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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