Britain returns to the national blockade. Closed until December 2, schools open. Johnson: “We act now or thousands of dead”

“The time has come to give a strong answer, there is no alternativeWith these words, with the country that just today has passed the million infections since the beginning of the pandemic, the British Prime Minister, Boris johnson, announced to the population that from November 5 to December 2 in Britain will come back in national blockade for a month. Movements will only be allowed for reasons of greeting, emergencies, by go to work and to do the shopping. Activities considered “non-essential”, on the other hand, will be closed, while they will remain schools and universities are open.

“If we do not act now” we run the risk of having “Thousands of deaths a day” in a few weeks, Johnson said at a press conference evoking in that case “A moral disaster” for the health service (SNS) and for the country: “If we do not act, for the first time we will not be able to count on the support of our health system,” he said, addressing the public. However, the prime minister defended the choice of local restrictions adopted in recent weeks who said he still believed in the best and fairest approach at the time, also given the huge “lockout costs”. But given the new data, which show even worse medium-term projections, both in number of infections and victims, from the previous wave, the green light for the general strike has been formalized, inviting the population to “Stay at home”.

In particular, the grip provides the closure of all non-essential activities. They are excluded from the restrictions pharmacy, supermarkets and all those essential services that must remain available to citizens in this period of sacrifice. Instead stop at all recreational and social activities, from Hotels, restaurants, pub me coffee except for the services of to carry out. In addition, there is a mandatory indication of working from home for those who can, do not go out except for basic needs, with permission to do so physical activity, but not being able to meet outdoors with more than one person who does not cohabit, further limiting the number that had already risen to six in recent weeks. On the other hand, gatherings are prohibited indoors., even in private homes, between people from different families.

Before the Prime Minister’s intervention, the technical-scientific advisers of Downing street showed numerous slides with projections for the coming months, showing data on contagion, mortality and, above all, those of the overload of hospital facilities. In almost all the images it was shown that the consequences of not intervening would lead to health crisis much worse than what the country had to face from March to summer, with collapsed hospitals already in the short-medium term and the hypothesis of 4 thousand deaths a day, despite the fact that the number of seats in Covid departments and dedicated staff has been increased. A trend that is accelerating “very quickly” and with respect to certain indicators in an “exponential” measure, as the Prime Minister’s medical advisers emphasize, Chris whitty me Patrick Vallance, present at the press conference.

The prime minister has repeatedly said that he is close to all the workers of the activities that will be forced to close again and has announced the extension until November and while the national closure of the scheme lasts. state subsidies gives super layoffs meant to cover up80% of salary of people deprived of their income. At the same time, you are committed to relaunch testing and monitoring system, which turned out to be partially ineffective in recent months, and a “massive” new diffusion of tampons.

From the British scientific world, some experts keep asking greater severity, while several unions from the education sector are also calling on schools and universities to stop. L ‘Labor opposition criticizes the Conservative government for having resisted too long the recent strategy of staggered local restrictions territory by territory through three levels of alert. And he claims to have suggested through the mouth of his leader, Keir starmer, a two-week semi-lockdown since the first half of October: solution adopted by the local government led by Labor in Welsh from October 23 to November 9, but that in fact could be insufficient and not escape an extension at the last minute.

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