UK Covid; daily new highs, 68,000 new cases, 1,325 new deaths

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Roughly 60%

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/8january2021#the-percentage-of-those-testing-positive-who-are-compatible-for-the-new-uk-variant

They don't give a single figure for the whole of the UK, but the England graph is the closest to that, being over 80% of the UK population. In London, one of the earliest regions to suffer from the new strain, it's about 80%.

Those figures are approximate, and come with caveats. The Office for National Statistics is doing random sampling of people each week so their results include asymptomatic people too, but are statistical rather than the precise count of cases, hospitalizations or deaths.