Britain's daily Covid cases jump by 10% to highest level in a month
Daily Covid cases in the UK rose again today after a small blip yesterday but hospital admissions have fallen and deaths remain flat, as the epidemic becomes increasingly unpredictable. Belgium's Prime Minister today said Europe was on 'red alert' as he imposed tough restrictions, ordering people to work at home for at least four days a week. In Austria, Covid cases have continued rising after two million unvaccinated people were ordered to stay in their homes on Monday - with other European countries including Germany and Italy considering similar health apartheids. As Europe braced for Christmas under lockdown: Germany's hospitals are buckling under the strain, with patients transferred to Italy because the wards are full; Russian Covid cases hit record highs for the second-day running amid poor vaccine uptake with just 43 percent of the population double-jabbed; Ireland has ordered a midnight curfew for all nightclubs and pubs; Germany's disease control agency warned of a 'really terrible Christmas'; Virologists in the Netherlands proposed extending Christmas holidays to slow surging cases among children amid the highest cases on record today; Spain's Benidorm beach resort, popular with British partygoers, has opened a Covid vaccine centre to counter surging cases. Austria's Covid cases have continued to soar even after lockdown was imposed on 2million unvaccinated people earlier this week Eastern Europe is continent's excess deaths capital because of lagging Covid vaccine rollouts Western Europe is no longer the continent's capital for excess deaths, official data shows with Eastern European countries now taking up that mantle.
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