UK released worst coronavirus case data since February

The British Department of Health notified on Wednesday After 9,000 new cases of coronavirus, a daily balance that the United Kingdom not enough since February and which warns the authorities who have already delayed the de-escalation scheduled for the summer.

Specific, The UK added 9,055 new positives, bringing the total since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to 4,589,814. At least 127,926 patients have lost their lives, nine more than on Tuesday, as the rate d hospital admissions continue to grow.

The Minister of Health, Matt hancock, admitted to the House of Commons that hospitalizations have increased 48% over the past week, although he clarified that most of them are people under the age of 50 who have not completed the vaccination schedule.

The government believes that More than 42 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 30 million have completed the diet, as part of a campaign that is already stretching into their twenties and trying to cope with the expansion of the Indian variant of the virus.

Boris Johnson’s executive postponed until July 19 the end of de-escalation in England, date on which Hancock stayed this Wednesday. “We will not need more than these four weeks to complete the work,” he told MPs.

The Minister hopes that Saving time also serves to prevent more deaths, although he has made it clear that eradicating the virus completely “is not possible” and that when the time comes the UK will have to continue living with it, albeit ‘with now a higher percentage of the vaccinated population.

For the sake of protection, The government has also confirmed that vaccination will be compulsory for nursing home workers. and does not exclude that the same may be true for the agents of the public health. Hancock explained that this action was taken after a “meticulous“Study:” We know that the vaccine not only protects you, but also those around you. “

Since its identification in December 2020, just one year after the appearance of the virus SARS-CoV-2 appeared in China, the Delta variant the world is expanding confirming its supremacy and expansion.

A clear example of this is that this same variant displaced another, different from the original strain. This Delta variant now represents almost all cases in the United Kingdom, where the Alpha variant had emerged. Speaking to a parliamentary committee yesterday, Matt Hancock confirmed that the Delta variant, which originated in India, “it now includes 91% of new cases in the UK ”.

Some 40,000 people lost their lives when infected in residences in England and, although most workers in these centers have already been vaccinated, it is estimated that there could be more than 50,000 not yet immunized, according to the TV channel Sky News.

(with EP information)

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