The number of reported daily COVID-19 cases in the UK has broken a new record, but the numbers of hospitalisations and deaths have remained steady. A record 129,471 new cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, 90 percent higher than the highest number from the previous waves of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus infections—and second only the number in the United States. The number doesn’t include Scotland and Northern Ireland, which haven’t updated their figures since Christmas Eve, but Wale’s number (12,378) was artificially high because data wasn’t updated on Christmas day and Dec. 27. According to the UK Health Security Agency (pdf), the percentage of Omicron cases has ballooned to 92 percent of the new cases by Dec. 27—one month after the first two cases were discovered in England. Looking at the number of new cases per million people, the UK’s number was 1,670, the eighth highest in the …