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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dxx" data-source="post: 26025588" data-attributes="member: 386171">The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.<a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" target="_blank">According to government figures on Tuesday,</a> the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.One in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.A further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.It comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.At a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55553072" target="_blank">had now been vaccinated</a> in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.But he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.The government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/adhocs/12722estimatesofcovid19casesto02januaryforenglandregionsofenglandandbycasescompatiblewiththenewvariant" target="_blank">Office for National Statistics' random sampling data</a> for England as showing how widespread the virus is."We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others," he said.BBC</blockquote>

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