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Scotland decided on Monday to impose new strict restrictions on how people can move around from Tuesday. It will be forbidden to leave home during the rest of January except to buy food and visit hospitals and pharmacies. The new rules apply from midnight.
– I have not felt the same anxiety as now during the entire pandemic. Stay home, save lives, Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in a speech.
So now England is doing the same. The new closure of parts of the partnership will mean, among other things, that more people will have to work from home and that schools will close for the majority of students.
This is the fourth time Boris Johnson has spoken to the nation during the crown pandemic and the third time the prime minister has announced that he will shut down much of the country.
Boris Johnson explained that It is the new variant, which has been shown to be 56 percent more contagious as the reason for the new measures.
– Our hospitals are under stronger pressure than for some time during the pandemic. The death toll has risen by 20 percent last week, the prime minister said.
– Now it is clear that we must do more together. In England, we must enter a national lockdown. Schools should start working with distance education from tomorrow.
It’s not that schools are unsafe, but rather that they can function as points where the infection spreads to homes, according to Johnson. Kindergartens will remain open.
According to Boris Johnson, you get do not leave home except in cases of absolute emergency. All the work that can be done from home.
– I understand that you think this is difficult, but now we have to do it all together. But right now we have to stay home again, protect health care, save lives. I think we are coming out of this.
On Monday, the UK reported another 58,000 new cases of COVID-19, for the seventh day in a row. Additionally, hospital admissions are increasing, putting severe pressure on medical care. Nine out of ten people who die from the infection are over 65 years old.
However, the Prime Minister said that there is hope because Britain has vaccinated more than the rest of Europe combined.
– But even if we do get everyone vaccinated, it will be several weeks before we can see results and before the pressure on medical care eases.
Boris Johnson took his temperature Monday when the Astra Zeneca vaccine began rolling out in the UK.
Photo: Stefan Rousseau / AFP
More and more countries are cracking down measurements. On Monday, Bild reported that Germany will also extend the country’s shutdown until January 31. And the situation is difficult for health care in several countries. In Ireland, hospitals can no longer accommodate anyone in need of non-covid-19 care and are now canceling non-emergency surgeries. Previously, the country had one of the lowest infection numbers in Europe, but today Ireland’s chief medical officer, Paul Reid, describes a spread of the infection that is the fastest in Europe.
– It’s scary, he says in an interview with Newstalk.
Another country badly affected It is the Czech Republic where the country’s Health Minister Roman Prymula predicts that the infection will peak on January 15 and that hospitals will come under heavy pressure. One of the country’s crematoria can no longer take care of all the dead, Lidovky writes.
In France, the number of people treated for covid-19 increased for the third day in a row.
