The United Kingdom today recorded its highest daily COVID case count since the beginning of the pandemic, with 78,610 cases registered – exceeding the previous peak of 68,192 recorded on 8 January.
Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, said that people would be getting infected with the Omicron variant of COVID in “very, very, very large numbers” quite soon and that it was spreading at “an absolutely phenomenal pace”:
“I’m afraid we have to be realistic that records will be broken a lot over the next few weeks as the rates continue to go up”.
