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So far, more than 1.3 million Britons have been vaccinated against covid-19, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in connection with the entry into force of the new toughest lockdown in England.
The UK has been hit hard by covid-19 and is now investing in being a world leader in mass vaccination of the population. More than 1.3 million Britons have been vaccinated so far, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday night.
The UK has been hit hard by COVID-19 and is now investing in being a world leader in mass vaccination of the population. But getting the disease back will take time, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a tighter shutdown that is now taking effect across England.
It means a return to the very strict rules that prevailed for a period in the spring of last year. The main rule is that everyone should stay home, you can only go out for specific reasons, for example to buy food.
Currently, more than a million people are coinfected in England, Johnson said at a news conference Tuesday night, according to British media.
It means that approximately two percent of the inhabitants of England are infected. And the number of hospitalized patients is now 40 percent more than when the pandemic peaked during the first wave.
– If people do not heed the advice to stay home now, then the risks to our society, now that we are in the middle of winter, are extremely great, said Chris Whitty, who is the highest representative of health in England, and who also participated in the press conference.
Whittys also said that the new mutated variant of the virus, which is suspected to be more contagious, is now found in virtually all of England.
Earlier During the day, the British government signaled that it was months rather than weeks before any relief was expected from England’s harsh shutdown. An initial evaluation will take place in mid-February.
Boris Johnson confirmed during Tuesday’s press conference that he hopes that under certain conditions it will be possible to ease the restrictions in mid-February.
Its goal is that the elderly, people living in nursing homes, people in risk groups and people who work close to the covid disease, get vaccinated in mid-February. It is about 13 million people.
In the UK, the spread of infection is unevenly distributed, with the London area being by far the hardest hit. Scotland is among the least vulnerable areas at the moment, but even there a closure similar to England has been introduced.
