In Great Britain there are 49,139 new coronavirus cases registered in the last 24 hours and 179 deaths from complications related to the infection. The local health authorities have made it known. The latest figures show that cases increased by 17.2 percent in one week, while deaths increased by 21.1 percent, again in one week.
London: no lockdown but winter “will be hard”
Despite the increase in infections, in Great Britain, as a spokesman for Downing Street explained, it is excluded from imposing a new complete lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, but, according to Health Minister Sajid Javid, “a particularly hard winter “. According to reports by Sky News, in fact, Javid told parliamentarians that there is “enormous pressure” on the health service in England “also because of” the shortage of staff. “In the next two weeks, the minister said, he will unveiled the plan developed with the national health system to deal with the winter months “additional funding” planned.
Health crisis alarm
If we do not act immediately to stop the Covid-19 contagion, there is a risk of “a profound crisis” in the next 3 months, says the British Health Service, which asks Prime Minister Boris Johnson to enact anti-Covid restrictions as soon as possible before the situation worsens. But for now the government has no intention of doing so. “We believe that it is not the time to move to plan B”, said the Minister of Industry Kwasi Kwarteng, interviewed on the subject by the ‘BBC’.
“We are at the limit and it is only mid-October. It will take a lot of luck not to find ourselves in the midst of a deep crisis in the next 3 months,” said today But Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, which brings together all health systems in the world. UK. Interviewed by the ‘Guardian’, Taylor asked the government to urgently adopt the so-called plan B for the winter: obligation to wear a mask in various places, return to smart working and, if necessary, also the Green pass. It is also necessary, he warned, to return to a spirit of “national mobilization”, avoiding “risky behavior”.
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