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LONDON – In the UK, it has run against time to try to contain the fury of the coronavirus. And then everything closes again, for the third time, because the nightmare has returned and in a way it seems worse than the one in March-April. Because the new English variant is spreading across the country, not just in London and the South East: more than 50 thousand cases a day for almost a week, a historical record, hospitalizations at the highest levels, deaths at the levels of Spring, Scotland is back today In the third national shutdown, England will do the same in the next few days, if not hours. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will speak to the nation at 9pm in Italy tonight.
For this reason, as of today, in addition to that of Pfizer, the new Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine is being administered abroad, after a rapid but controversial approval by the British pharmaceutical authority and the announcement of distancing the two doses until three months to try to vaccinate as many people as possible in the meantime, although developing immunity limited to 60-70 percent. After Margaret Keenan and William Shakespeare, 90, received the Pfizer vaccine, the first person to receive the Oxford vaccine this morning in England is Brian Pinker, 82, of Oxford, who suffers from kidney disease.
Emergency measures showing the level of alarm in London. The data is worrying, especially if one takes into account that 80% of the country, with current local restrictions, is already practically closed in and previously it was during the entire month of November. However, the infections have not abated and have in fact splashed like never seen before. A sign that the new super contagious “English variant” may spread despite restrictive measures implemented in recent weeks. In London and in most of the country, pubs, bars, restaurants and non-essential shops have been closed for two weeks, you cannot meet anyone at home (only one person away): today the capital was deserted and desolate as you really cannot. I saw from April to May.
However, the virus seems unstoppable. We were talking about the worrying data circulating in the government and among its experts. It is enough to list them to make us understand the seriousness of the situation: some hospitals in the southeast and London have 50% of all patients with Covid; in total there are 25 thousand hospitalized for Covid at this time in the country, or 30% more than the peak in April; several hospitals are already collapsing and are canceling any other type of visits, even remotely, because intensive care is overwhelmed by new hospitalizations and mainly doctors are needed there; second PoliticianSomeone in Whitehall already estimates that, at this rate, the monstrous 100,000 deaths from Covid could be broken by the end of the month, which would mean another 25,000 by the end of January. Finally, to complete the sad scenario, a new South African variant of the virus appears to have devastating potential, far more than the English one. So much so that Sir John Bell, a professor at Oxford, fears that the new vaccines will not work against the new South African strain.
Therefore, even in England, after today’s announcement by Scottish Prime Minister Sturgeon, the third national closure could be declared tonight, as requested yesterday, with the usual calendar, Labor leader Keir Starmer, who has once again nailed the executive conservative to his contradictions and hesitations in the fight against the Coronavirus. Boris Johnson will speak at 9:00 p.m. Italian: Certainly, there will be many new restrictions, including school closings, that your government has always tried to avoid, without success. And if the measures do not have the name of “national blockade”, the fund will certainly not change: everything will be closed immediately, and perhaps until Easter. Because the English variant of the virus seems unstoppable. And the same fate could now happen to other countries. Despite the vaccines, and the 140 million doses between Oxford (100) and Pfizer (40) ordered by Johnson, the road to a kind of normalcy is still a long one. In the UK and beyond.
