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England will enter the toughest lockdown since March in at least six weeks, Boris Johnson announced tonight in a televised message. During this period, schools will be closed and citizens will be able to move only for specific reasons.
This is the third national blockade, which asks citizens of England to stay home until February 15. The next few weeks “will be the most difficult,” Johnson warned. “But I really believe that we are entering the final phase of the fight, because with each vaccination we increase the chances for the benefit of the British people,” he added.
Lawmakers are expected to vote on tough new measures that will take effect on Wednesday, although companies are due to close on Monday night.
The country today registered a new negative record with 58,784 cases, while for the seventh consecutive day the cases exceeded 50,000. The “headache” is the new mutation that was initially detected in Britain but has now been detected in many countries, but also the great pressure that hospitals are receiving.
Measures
All students will switch to distance learning in February and shops that do not sell essentials will close, the British prime minister said.
Across the country, people will now only be able to move for work reasons and only if it is impossible to work from home, as well as to obtain basic food and medicine.
It is allowed to exercise with another person from another household, but the recommendation is only one day to exercise.
Restaurants can continue to deliver food at home, but packaged alcohol will be prohibited.
Outdoor sports facilities, such as golf courses, tennis courts, and gyms, must be closed.
Amateur team sports are not allowed, but the Premier League can continue.
“Acceleration of vaccinations”
The British Prime Minister reiterated the UK Health Ministry’s advice that the alert level for Covid should move to level 5, “which means that if no action is taken, the NHS capacity may be overloaded in 21 days.”
However, he added there was “a huge difference” from last time, and said the UK was “starting the largest vaccination program in its history” and had so far “vaccinated more people than the rest. of Europe”.
Johnson also said that “the vaccination rate is accelerating” thanks to the arrival of the Oxford vaccine and AstraZeneca, which began to be administered to the British today.
Concern about the mutation
At the beginning of his televised sermon, Johnson referred to the mutant strain of Sars-Cov2, saying it was “frustrating and disturbing” to see how quickly it was spreading.
“Scientists believe that it is between 50% and 70% more contagious, so people are much more likely to contract the virus and transmit it,” he added.
At the same time, he stressed that hospitals are now under more pressure than so far from the outbreak of the pandemic.
“Given the troubling facts, it became ‘clear that we have to do more’ to get the new, rapidly spreading coronary mutation ‘under control’ and to aid the vaccination process in the UK,” he said.
“The problem with the school is not that schools are not safe for children,” he said, adding that children are unlikely to be seriously affected even by the new Covid mutation.
However, he noted that schools can act as “outbreaks”, causing the virus to spread between homes.
