London reported no daily deaths from COVID-19 for the first time in six months

Good news for the UK. The same day the English regained limited freedom against the backdrop of a cautious lack of refinement, London reported no deaths from COVID-19 for the first time in six months, according to official data.

Figures from Public Health England (PHE) from March 28 showed that No patient deaths had been recorded in the British capital within 28 days of testing positive for the coronavirus.

Encouraging data fills up after a drastic reduction in the number of daily infections (3862 Sunday) and a successful vaccination campaign having already given the first dose to 30 million people (60% of adults)

London was the epicenter of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020

London represents the 12% of all coronavirus deaths in the UK and it was the epicenter of the first wave of the pandemic last year.

At the height of the crisis last April, some 230 daily deaths linked to the virus.

Since the start of the pandemic, 708,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in London, Of which 15,000 died within the next 28 days. In total, there was 18,000 deaths in London hospitals.

PAULATINE DEFINATION

News is coming like the English begin a lack of refinement that allows them to meet in small groups abroad and resume outdoor sports.

Faced with a much more contagious strain of the coronavirus originating in the south of England at the end of the year, London closed non-essential stores on December 20 – restaurants, cinemas, theaters, museums had already closed before – and he decided not to reopen the schools after the Christmas holidays, ordering the population to “stay at home”.

From this Monday, the UK allows meetings of up to six people in open spaces

The progressive lack of refinement, which started on March 8 and which must be extended until the end of June, moved to a new stage on Monday with the authorization to organize meetings up to 6 people in open places such as parks or private gardens and reopen golf, tennis and outdoor swimming pool facilities despite the low water temperatures.

Although the government continues to encourage teleworking where possible and to avoid public transport, it remains also legally lifted the order to “stay at home” in the country most affected in Europe by the pandemic, with more than 126,500 deaths confirmed by covid-19.

CALL FOR CAUTION

Despite this small easing, provided for in a detailed roadmap announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the end of February, the government continues to call on the population to be careful, warning of the risk that new, less reactive variants to vaccines could derail the de-escalation of containment with serious economic and psychological consequences.

“As the increase in cases in Europe shows, this virus remains a very real threat”, warned the Minister of Health, Matt Hancock.

London police have insisted that “All large gatherings” are still prohibited and promised to act quickly against indoor parties and mass gatherings.

The country, which has so far administered the AstraZeneca / Oxford and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, is facing a reduction in supplies just as the second doses are injected (distributed to 3.5 million people to date) provides for the delivery in April of 17 million doses of a third vaccine, that of the American laboratory Moderna, to achieve its goal of having vaccinated the entire adult population by the end of July.

Boris Johnson: “We have to be careful”

England’s next step in deconfinement is planned April 12, with bars and restaurants reopening, and non-essential businesses like barbershops that Johnson himself, with more unruly blond hair than usual, said he was eager to visit.

Travel abroad is prohibited, which according to the roadmap will only be authorized from May 17 at the earliest.

“We have to be careful”Johnson insisted, stressing that “the increase in cases in Europe and the new variants that threaten our vaccination campaign” could reach the UK in three weeks.

At the moment, however, pursues its national plan “towards freedom”, he claimed.

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