In a week, the new cases are up 44%. The fourth dose vaccine campaign must begin from March 21 for over 75 years and most vulnerable.
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The media almost no longer speak, the Minister of Health, Sajid Javid, does not see “no reason to worry” for the few cases of the new Variant Deltacron – it has the characteristics of Omicron and Delta variants – Detected, however, the experts are worried because the CIVID-19 epidemic is strongly in the United Kingdom.
In the last seven days, more than 534,000 new positive cases were recorded, an increase of 44% and hospitalizations are also significantly reset (+ 22%), with more than 11,500 hospitalized patients. Now 14,078 patients are treated at the hospital primarily for SARC-COV-2 infection. The number of under respirator patients remains very low (281) and deaths (within twenty-eight days of a positive test) are stable: about 105 per day on the last week. To believe the National Statistics Office, considered as the most reliable source of information since the beginning of the pandemic, a person in twenty-five had been positive tested in England during the week being completed on March 5th. The proportion was of a person on thirty in Wales, one on thirteen in Northern Ireland and one in eighteen in Scotland (more than 5% of the population).
These increases are currently mainly attributed to the new Omicron variant strain, BA.2, which could be up to 40% more transmitted than the initial strain – but a priori, no more virulent. In its latest REACT study (conducted with 95,000 tests between February 8 and the March 1, the Imperial College London estimates that almost half of the new cases positive on February 21st ( 47.2%) were due to Variant BA.2.
Pressure on the public hospital
“We have a glimpse of what the return to a prepademic situation looks like, but it is not brilliant,” says in the Financial Times John Edmunds, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “Predictions betting on a spring lull might have been deceived. It seems to me that because of the emergence of Variant BA.2, we settle in a prolonged situation of high prevalence [of the virus], resulting in pressure Continuing on the NHS [National Health Service, the British Public Health System] “, adds this member of the SAGE, the group of scientists advising the Johnson government.
“The increased presence of sub-variant BA.2 and the recent rise in infections in the over 55 years prove that the pandemic is not completed and that we have to expect a strong circulation of the virus”, A Notes in early March Dr. Jenny Harries, Executive Director of the British Health Safety Agency. But no question for the Johnson government to give up its policy decreed at the end of February. Since February 24, positive people will no longer be required to get in quarantine – the wearing of the mandatory mask and vaccine passports have been abandoned in January.
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