translated from Spanish: UK suffers 1,295 deaths in a single day from pandemic sharpening

The balance of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK has been updated on Saturday with 41,346 new cases and another 1,295 deaths, while a slight effect of the containment measures adopted in recent weeks begins to be seen. The number of contagions is significantly lower than Friday’s 55,000 cases, but the number of daily deaths has increased slightly, according to the balance sheet. The Ministry of Health, which updates the data daily, has recorded 3,357,361 cases and 88,590 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 37,400 patients remain admitted to hospitals, some 3,700 of them with assisted breathing. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealed to caution this week, but acknowledged that some sign of improvement in contagion data was beginning to be perceived. The rate of growth of the virus still stands between 1.2 and 1.3 nationally, but in the case of the capital, where restrictions were imposed earlier, the data falls to between 0.9 and 1.3.However, it will still take weeks before hospital pressure can be eased and the Government is feared that the data will continue to worsen until February. The situation in the capital has reached such an extent that some patients have been transferred from London to Newcastle, almost 500 kilometres away, according to ‘The Guardian’. Johnson has asked citizens not to move this weekend and to maximize their movements, also in an attempt to buy time as the vaccination plan progresses. More than 3.2 million people have already been vaccinated, some of whom some 443,000 have already received the second dose, according to the Ministry of Health.On the other hand, the prime minister has lamented the recent “extraordinary pressure” on hospitals in the country and the health system. In this regard, it regretted that some of the health centres had to cancel operations and that ambulances were “queuing” at the entrance to the hospitals.” This is not the time to relax and set aside our national resolution,” he said before blaming the variant for being much more contagious than the pre-existing coronavirus strain.

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