England has passed the peak of internees by coronav …

The effect of the second wave of covid-19 in Britain is of such magnitude that the number of hospitalized for coronavirus yesterday exceeded the peak of the first time that the virus has hit this country. In the last 24 hours, 20,426 people hospitalized, nearly 1,500 more than last April.

While England was the first country to vaccinate its population and the government is banking on this solution to get out of the crisis, social detente in care has overwhelmed the situation. It is estimated that 17 people are infected per minute.

English health workers are in the eye of the hurricane, and some hospital authorities believe that the pandemic “sweeps” in this country. Official figures illustrate this situation. The health ministry confirmed that as of Monday morning, 20,426 cases had been hospitalized across the country, topping the 18,974 case mark during the peak of the first wave, recorded on April 12.

The number of infections recorded in a single day was 41,385 people, with which the accumulated total of infected there has exceeded 2.3 million. Meanwhile, the death toll has risen to 71,000.

“Many of us we have lost family members, friends, colleaguesAnd at a time of year when we would normally celebrate, a lot of people naturally feel anxious, frustrated and tired, ”said Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS.

Hospital services are “very, very busy,” Matthew Kershaw, head of a hospital in Croydon, south London, told the BBC. According to him, health workers “We are in the eye of the hurricane again with a second wave of coronavirus sweeping across Europe and this country”.

In the meantime, the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will give its opinion in the coming days on the vaccine developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, after having authorized that of Pfizer / BioNTech which more than 600,000 people have been injected since December 8.

The head of this organization, Simon Stevens, estimated that “by the end of spring”, all vulnerable people in the country will have been vaccinated. “This may be the greatest ray of hope for next year“, he underlined.

But vaccination efforts up to 2 million injections per week will need to be doubled to avoid a third wave pandemic, according to estimates from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.