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The United Kingdom registered 4,368 new infections with the new coronavirus and 11 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the British Ministry of Health, which admitted an acceleration of the pandemic and warned of a scenario of 50,000 new daily cases in October, if not taken additional restrictive measures.
As of Sunday, 3,899 new infections and 18 deaths had been reported, but 4,422 new cases were identified on Saturday, the highest number since May.
The cumulative total in the UK since the start of the covid-19 pandemic rose to 398,625 confirmed cases of contagion and 41,788 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
British Health Minister Matt Hancock admitted in Parliament on Monday that “there is no doubt that this virus is accelerating.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make an official statement on the covid-19 pandemic this Tuesday, after an emergency council meeting, in which new measures of social distance are expected to be defined for the entire country.
“The epidemic doubles approximately every seven days”
UK Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance cautions that if this continues, by mid-October we could see 50,000 Covid-19 cases per day.
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The head of the Scottish government, Nicola Sturgeon, admitted that the new measures “will almost certainly be applied” in the coming days in Scottish territory, while the executive of Wales announced a local lockdown in the regions of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil. Newport and Blaenau Gwent starting at 6pm on Tuesday.
Last Friday, the British statistical institute ONS indicated that in the week of September 3 to 10, 6,000 cases of covid-19 had been identified in England, almost double than the previous week, a trend that the authorities are observing. in the rest of the UK.
At a press conference yesterday, the Government’s main scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, said that if this rate continues, the United Kingdom could register 200 deaths per day by mid-October.
“Fifty thousand cases a day would lead to 200 deaths or more one day later, in mid-November,” Vallance warned, warning about “how quickly this can evolve if doubling continues.”
Vallance and England’s Chief Health Officer Chris Whitty argued for the need for measures to curb this trend.
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