Alarm in the UK: they fear an upsurge in infections for the coming weeks

With three in four Britons vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine against coronavirus, the United Kingdom government warned on Thursday that the evolution of new coronavirus cases is not progressing in the “right direction” and warned that it expects a increased infections for the next few weeks.

The alarm triggered her Jenny harry, head of the UK Health Security Agency, at a seminar online organized by the Royal Society of Medicine.

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The official said data extracted from the study models suggests there will be a rebound in infections “In the next weeks”.

“We are making progress, probably as a country, but not in the right direction that we would all want, ”he admitted.

Three out of four people vaccinated

The alarm came at a time when the vaccination campaign was advancing at a rate that places Britain among the nations that have most immunized their populations against COVID-19.

A few days ago, the Minister of Health, Matt hancocksaid 75.2% of the UK adult population have already received the first dose of the vaccine.

A total of 39,585,665 people have been vaccinated with the first of two doses since the vaccination program began almost six months ago.

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Harries said “cases are on the rise” in the UK and stressed that “it is becoming increasingly clear that we will start to see a new download, not necessarily immediately, but in the weeks to come ”.

The latest official figures released on Thursday by the UK Department of Health show that in the past 24 hours there have been seven deaths from the virus and 7,393 new infections.

The death toll has risen to 127,867 since the start of the pandemic.

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Harries also said that COVID-19 patients treated in hospitals are people who are not vaccinated or who have only received the first dose.

And he explained, “Due to the increase in hospitalizations and the risk that there will be a further spread of the Delta (or Indian) variant, it is really very important to save lives than the elderly who are over. at risk, who have not had their first or second dose, get vaccinated ”.

The specialist felt that it is early to be able to take decisions on the end of the social restrictions scheduled for the 21 of this month. In this regard, he said that it was necessary to wait another week to have a more precise idea of ​​the situation.