Covid-19 deaths teetered over 74,000 today. Coronavirus continues to plague the UK as infection rates soar into the New Year.The UK’s all-important ‘R’ number is now sitting somewhere between 1.1 and 1.3, meaning the virus is growing.It needs to be under 1.0 for Covid-19 to be considered shrinking, but a hugely infections mutated strain has continued to wreak havoc.According to new research, the fresh strain is more transmissible than the version first encountered last year.In England today cases exceeded 50,000 for the fourth day running - and an eight-year-old boy was among the latest victims to die after testing positive.Sobering statistics show that the total number of UK cases is now a staggering 2,542,065, and the total number of.
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