Supreme Scientific Advisor government It has been said that it is “unlikely” that the lockdown will be needed again to control the Covid pandemic.
As the number of hospitalized patients infected with the virus has fallen, and the average infection rate has fallen, this statement has also followed.
The number of Covid infections is expected to rise again in September, when schools and universities open, and more employees are expected to return to the office.
But immunologist professor Neil Ferguson One of the government’s most prominent Covid scientific advisers predicts that it is unlikely that a lockdown will be needed again to contain the virus.
In the interview era He said: “I think we are unlikely to need new lockdown measures, or even the kind of social distancing measures we have taken so far.”
The Imperial College professor also told the newspaper that the possibility of blockade cannot be ruled out because the “warning” that may change the situation is if “the virus changes significantly.”
But Professor Ferguson added that the new coronavirus “will rapidly transform within a few months, become more of our lives, and be managed through vaccination rather than crisis measures”.
He said that the vaccine “greatly changed the relationship between cases and hospitalization.”
Professor Ferguson also stated that the 2020 European Football Championship created an “artificially exaggerated level of exposure” that led him to predict in July that the UK will reach 100,000 Covid cases per day after the fourth phase is unlocked.
After the game, the number of cases decreased. Professor Ferguson said that the epidemic also had a “reasonable impact” on the harder spread of the virus.
On Friday, the UK provided the first coronavirus injections to healthy 16-year-olds, and older teenagers in Northern Ireland can also participate.
In England, teenagers are told that they should wait for their GP to contact to arrange an appointment.
It is expected that from next week, walk-in services will be provided across England.
In Scotland, people of this age can register their interests on the online portal and then send them an appointment via text message or email, while people in the Shetland, Orkney and Western Islands will be connected with their health Committee contact.
Chief Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford Said that the health committee there began to send out vaccine invitations to 16- and 17-year-olds.
Downing Street was forced to deny the report on Friday night Boris Johnson During a two-day trip to Scotland, he was in contact with a civil servant who tested positive for Covid.
The Guardian reported that the civil servant No. 10 who participated in Mr. Johnson’s visit to Scotland had to be isolated after testing positive.
The newspaper stated that the two had been seen “side by side” many times, but Mr. Johnson was not isolated.
Spokesperson No. 10 said: “The Prime Minister regularly visits communities across the UK, and all aspects of the visit are conducted in accordance with Covid guidelines.
“The Prime Minister did not have close contact with anyone who tested positive.”
According to the “Guardian”, the staff member was quarantined in Scotland after testing positive. “All those who were identified as close contacts were told to do so.”
Anneliese Dodds of the Labour Party criticized the prime minister, describing the decision as “one rule applies to them and another rule applies to everyone else.”
The number of coronavirus patients hospitalized in England has fallen for the fourth consecutive day. The latest data from the NHS in the United Kingdom shows that at 8 am on Friday, August 6, 4,879 coronavirus patients were hospitalized in England, a 4.5% drop from last week. Starting from the 5,111 week reported on Friday, July 30.
The number of beds occupied by confirmed Covid-19 patients has fallen for the fourth consecutive day.
According to the latest government data, the number of coronaviruses in England, or R-value, has fallen between 0.8 and 1.1.
Last week, it was between 1.1 and 1.4. R represents the average number of people who continue to be infected for each Covid-19 positive person.
The government said that as of Friday, another 92 people died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to 130,178 in the UK.
The government said there were 31,808 laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK as of 9 am on Friday.
Government data as of August 5 shows that of the 86,009,359 Covid injections in the UK, 46,961,830 were the first doses, an increase of 35,500 from the previous day.
Approximately 39,047,529 people were the second dose, an increase of 172,692 people.
