LONDON: 86 Cases of Omicron Covid variants have been reported in the UK, taking total to 246, the British Health Authority confirmed Sunday.
This compared to a total of 160 on Saturday, an increase of more than 50 percent, according to the British Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
England registered 43,992 new Covid-19 infections, brought the total number of Coronavirus cases in this country to 10,464,389, according to official figures released on Sunday.
The country also reported 54 deaths related to the next Coronavirus.
The total number of deaths related to Coronavirus in the UK now stands at 145,605.
These figures only include the deaths of people who died within 28 days after their first positive test.
The latest data came when British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said all international arrivals to England, including children over 12 years old, need to take a pre-departure test from 0400 GMT on Tuesday.
He added that they must be taken a maximum of 48 hours before departure.
In addition, from 0400 GMT on Monday, December 6, Nigeria will be on the red trip list.
It joined several South African countries submitted after the Omicron variant was first detected last month.
“I think it’s too late to make a material difference to the omicron wave road if we will have it,” Professor Mark Woolhouse, member of the scientific pandemic influenza group about modeling (SPI-M), told the BBC when asked about the rules of a new trip.
More than 88 percent of people 12 years and over in the UK have their first vaccine dose and almost 81 percent have received both doses, according to the latest numbers.
More than 35 percent have received JAB Booster or the third dose of the Coronavirus vaccine.
To bring a normal life back, countries such as Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States have competed against time to launch the Coronavirus vaccine.