Professor Neal Ferguson, an infectious disease modeler and epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said that the UK can still see “a large number of transmissions entering the fall and entering the winter.”
Professor Ferguson told BBC Radio 4 that the number of cases on Today’s show is still “quite high”, at approximately 30,000 per day.
He described this situation as a “slightly sober situation” entering September.
A former member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergency Situations (SAGE) added that as the children return to school and the workers return to the office, when life returns to normal, we are still “possibly a considerable wave of infections in September and October” .
To date, more than 47 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine-part of the largest vaccination program ever launched in the country.
Professor Ferguson said that vaccination means that we are “unlikely” to see the death toll at the same level as in January.
However, experts issued a stern warning that the number of hospitalizations may still rise to 1,000 people per day, putting additional “stress” on the hospital. National Health Service.
After the number of new infections soared to 50,000 in mid-July, the number of infections reached 20,000 last week.
The R rate represents the average people Each CoronavirusThose who were -19 positive continued to be infected, and England dropped slightly to 0.8 and 1.
