Variant of Covid, Johnson thinks about the national lockdown

Published on: 12/25/2020 8:48 AM

Boris Johnson celebrates Brexit, but cannot rule out a new national blockade to stop the spread of the coronavirus and, in particular, of the new variant. The British prime minister, who yesterday presented the agreement between London and Brussels as a victory, at a press conference highlighted the need to adopt more severe measures, than those already in force, to stop the contagion. “We believe that we will have to face this difficult period with extremely severe and rigid measures,” the prime minister said. “I think it is necessary to attack the virus now to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control in January,” he added. “We must buy time to vaccinate as many elderly and frail people as possible.”

“I have a duty to tell people that the situation will continue to be difficult, also because of the speed with which the new variant of the virus is spreading. The vaccine is arriving, hope becomes certainty and this is the real way in the one that we will defeat the virus “. “he said again. The scientists meeting at SAGE reiterated the need to reach two million doses administered per week and to adopt a national lockdown to avoid an increase in deaths. The new variant is believed to be more contagious and, although it is no longer ‘bad’, it spreads more, involving a greater number of frail and elderly subjects.