In an interview on the BBC’s “The Andrew Murray Show”, John stressed that the restrictions currently in place in the most affected areas of England are doing enough, as hospitals are filled with Kovid-19 patients.
“It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be difficult in many parts of the country. I totally agree with that,” Johns said. He added, “I bet the people of this country compromise.”
“There are clearly a lot of drastic measures that we have to think about. I don’t want to speculate, I’m not guessing what they will be now,” he said.
“Clearly, this is one of the schools we had to close in March (…),” he added, as the controversy over the government’s mixed messages on reopening schools dominated the headlines.
Echoing his warning on the same program in October last year, Johnson warned: “It’s bumpy, and it’s going to be bumpy.”
But the Prime Minister stressed that the situation across the country should improve by spring by Tu as more people are vaccinated.
Under the current system, most of England comes under strict Tier 3 and Tier 4 restrictions – which ultimately replace London – with a strict stay-at-home message.
On Saturday, the UK recorded its highest daily increase in coronavirus infection since the onset of the epidemic, with a further 57,725 new coronavirus cases and 445 deaths. The country is most affected in Europe, with a total of 2.6 million infections and nearly. 75,000 people have died.
But some scientists have warned that drastic action is needed if new, more contagious strains of the virus, which have spread in recent weeks in London, southeast England and parts of Wales in particular, are brought under control.
Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians and Physicians, said on Saturday that some London hospitals were now nearly two-thirds full of Covid-19 patients.
Both primary and secondary schools in London and some other parts of south-east England will be closed for at least the next two weeks for individual education, except for the children of vulnerable students and critical workers. There has been a delay in the return of high school students across England.
Hope for mass vaccination
The UK government is focusing on a rapid rollout of vaccinations, hoping to return to some form of normalcy, giving priority to the elderly and clinically weaker people, as well as health and social care workers.
Asked about the dose of the UK Xford / AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which was approved by UK regulators on Wednesday, Johnson said Marne would be ready to give 530,000 doses from Monday, with Pfizer / Bioentechcovid at the top of “million or more”. -19 vaccines have already been delivered.
However, he was unable to say how many doses of Pfizer / Bioentech vaccine he was willing to give.
“We hope we can make millions [of Covid-19 vaccines] “I can definitely give you that figure in the next three months,” he said.
Johnson said the strategy relies on the use of three vaccines, the Pfizer / Bioentech vaccine and the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccines – both approved in the UK last month – and the Moderna vaccine, which will be ready to use.
Echoing what he said on a similar program in October last year, Johnson said: “I thought spring by Tuni things would be better. I’ll stick to it.”
On Sunday, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted that the country had received 1 million Pfizer / Bioentech Covid-19 vaccine doses, saying “the end is near.”
Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccines have started arriving in hospitals ready for their use from Monday.
This vaccine is cheaper and easier to dispense than Pfizer / Bioentech because it can be kept at regular refrigerator temperature for at least six months. Both Pfizer / Bioentech and Moderna vaccines should be stable.
New variant threat
Scotland’s first prime minister, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted on Sunday that her cabinet would meet the next day to “consider further action to limit the spread” of the more contagious type of infection in Britain, and called parliament to hear its decision. .
“We, like other countries, are in a race between this rapidly spreading strain of covid and the vaccination program,” he said.
“Right now all the decisions are tough, with a strong impact. The vaccine gives us a way out, but this new strain is now (and) the most dangerous since the epidemic began. So the government’s responsibility is to act quickly.” ) Decisive in the national interest, ”he said.
Despite warnings of threats in a government-appointed paper in June, Johnson backtracked on government advice suggested by Maun that his government had failed to fully prepare for the challenges of winter and the possibility of a change in coronavirus.
“We have taken every step we can to prepare this country for the winter results,” Jones said. “What we couldn’t think of, I think, was the justification for the arrival of a new type of virus, which was spreading rapidly between 50% and 0%. Once we understand that, I think, December 18 … Took. “
On January 1, more than 30 cases of coronavirus infection were first reported in the UK, including in the United States.
According to health officials, there is no evidence that this type is more fatal or causes more serious disease.
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