UK decrees total quarantine until February 15 – News

In parallel, Scotland He has also decided on a lockout which begins on Tuesday and will last throughout January, a measure similar to those the autonomous region imposed in March 2020, according to Scottish Chief Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Shortly thereafter, in his televised message to the nation, Johnson reported that all schools and education centers in England will return from Tuesday in the remote format, with the exception of children of essential workers and children of vulnerable sectors, according to the newspaper The Guardian.

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In addition, asked all of society to stay home and only go out to buy the essentials. The only ones who will be able to get out are the so-called essential workers or people fleeing domestic violence.

“The next few weeks will be the hardest so far, but I firmly believe that we are in the last phase of the fight. Stay at home, protect the health system and save lives,” the Prime Minister asked.

Johnson also reported that all people belonging to a risk group will shortly receive a letter alerting them to the need to re-isolate until the number of infections decreases and the hospital system regains its capacity to respond.

As he noted, hospitalizations in England rose 30% last week and hospitals are once on the verge of collapse.

December 29 the country saw a record of recording more than 80,000 new infections in a single day, then that week a 20% increase in the number of deaths.

Amid an uncontrolled rise in cases of a novel variant of the coronavirus, the UK on Monday became the first country to add the application of the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca vaccine to its plan vaccination.

With more than 75,000 dead, the United Kingdom is one of the countries in Europe most affected by the coronavirus.

The country, which has already inoculated 1 million people with the vaccine from US and German pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech – which was also the first in the world to approve -, has been facing a new wave of infections since the discovery in December of a new variant of the coronavirus between 40% and 70% more transmissible.