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“They will be tough months, very tough.” Boris johnson has called on the country to unite once again behind extreme measures to contain the virus: a national blockade, the third of May to today, which will last at least until mid-February. With a televised address to the nation, the British Prime Minister highlighted that the so-called “English variant” of Covid is approximately 60% more contagious than the previous ones. If the restrictions were working, the new strain forced the government to rethink yet another. Therefore, shops and restaurants, gyms and sports facilities, cultural centers, libraries, theaters and, above all, schools and universities are closing: distance training for everyone from January 5, even for primary school children who only on January 4 January they were back on the banks.
Like last spring, you are only allowed to go out to play sports once a day, to meet basic needs, receive medical care (including tampons for Covid) and escape domestic violence. Parliament was called approve the new measures. The situation in the UK is certainly dire. On January 4, 58,000 new cases of Covid were registered in 24 hours and more than 400 deaths. About 26,000 patients with the virus are hospitalized in the country’s hospitals. Last spring, when the national system was already on the brink, there were only 18,000 hospitalizations. Several UK hospitals have already announced that they are close to the crisis.
Labor leader Keir Starmer had already requested several days ago the introduction of a new national blockade, defining the virus “out of control”. On Sunday, the BBC’s Johnson had hinted that if stricter containment measures were possible, schools would remain open. “They are safe environments,” he said. Thirty-five hours later and furthermore following similar announcements in Scotland and Wales, the change.
The difference, Johnson noted, is that there are two vaccines today. The first doses of the AstraZeneca formula were administered yesterday. “With the wind in our sails,” stressed the premier, it is possible that in mid-February we can begin to glimpse a return to normality. Johnson hopes to be able to vaccinate the four most vulnerable groups by then, for a total of about 14 million people (that’s two million doses per week).
Jan 4, 2021 (change Jan 4, 2021 | 23:07)
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