Chris Whitty urges Covid-19 to be cautious because the UK “has not gotten out of the predicament”

Professor Chris Whitty said that the UK “has not been out of the predicament” and the public should be cautious about the end of coronavirus restrictions next Monday.

The Chief Medical Officer of England warned that the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations is currently doubling approximately every three weeks and that if this trend continues, it may reach a “quite dire number”.

Speak at a webinar hosted by science Museum On Thursday night, Professor Whitty said: “I don’t think we should underestimate the fact that we may get into trouble again at an alarming rate.”

He added: “We are not out of the predicament. We are in much better shape due to vaccine programs, drugs and various other factors.

“But there is still a long way to go in the UK, and it has to go even further in order to operate on a global scale.”

The government’s decision to legislate on Monday not to mandate the wearing of masks in indoor public places has caused a lot of controversy.

But Professor Whitty stated on July 19 that the key is to “process things very slowly,” adding that he fully hopes that most people will continue to take preventive measures.

“If you look at what people do, in fact, if you look at what people plan to do now, people are very good at saying,’I may be a relatively low risk, but the people around me are at high risk, I Will change my behavior’,” he said.

He added that people should not be “fascinated” by anti-vaxx and anti-blockade movements.

“Although people think this is not a big problem, and they have made a lot of noise and obtained a lot of information on many news channels, they are actually a very, very small minority of the population,” he said.

Many companies and transportation networks have stated that they will be forced to wear masks after June 19.

Professor Whitty said that in the medium term, this virus may mutate into a “vaccine escape variant”, which may make the UK “regress to some extent” and enter the worst period of the pandemic.

“The farther we go, the more scientific tools we can use, the less likely this is, but you can never completely rule out this possibility,” he said.