The number of coronavirus cases and deaths continues to increase rapidly in the UK. 21 UK Cypriots have died in just one week due to the coronavirus.
The highest number of daily cases since the coronavirus outbreak started on Tuesday, December 29, over 50,000 new cases of covid was confirmed and 414 deaths.
In the capital, 20 community members succumbed to the coronavirus in the last week. Three Greek Cypriots and 17 Turkish Cypriots and one Greek Cypriot in Birmingham
To date, we estimate 352 UK Cypriots (Greek, Turkish and Maronite) in total have died from Coronavirus. The figure includes 314 in London and 38 outside London. Parikiaki’s figures are arrived after contacting local hospitals, Churches and Turkish Cypriot media and community, funeral directors and death announcements that have come to our newspaper
The total fatalities now include 193 UK Greek Cypriots, 121 UK Turkish Cypriots and one UK Maronite Cypriot, all from London. Included in the UK Greek Cypriots are three married couples and two brothers.
Outside London, there were eleven UK Greek Cypriots and one UK Turkish Cypriot from Birmingham, three UK Greek Cypriots from Weston-super-Mare, who were all from the same family, one from Derby, one from Lowestoft, one from Cambridge, one from Cheltenham, three UK Greek Cypriots and one UK Maronite Cypriot and one Greek Cypriot from Liverpool, one UK Greek Cypriot from Luton, one from Southend, one from Glasgow, one from Newport, one from Leeds, one from Hemel Hempstead, one from Manchester one from Middlesborough, one from Margate and one from Wakefield. Four UK Turkish Cypriots, one each from Colchester, Maidstone, two Northampton and Suffolk, passed away, bringing the total number of UK Cypriot deaths outside London to 38.
The British government said on Wednesday it would put huge swathes of England into the strictest COVID-19 restrictions to counter a highly infectious variant of the virus which is spreading across the country.
Case numbers have risen sharply in Britain in the last two weeks and Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to cancel an easing of the rules over Christmas after a new strain that is up to 70% more transmissible than the original was discovered.
The government, which reported another 981 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours, said three quarters of England’s population would be in the top tier of restrictions from 0001 on Thursday, covering 44.1 million people.
