London, England.
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced this Monday that it has decreed a new one quarantine national in England, which includes closing schools because of the alarm coronavirus expansion caused by new variant.
“Hospitals are under more pressure than at any time since the beginning of the year pandemic“Johnson said in a speech to the nation, urging all citizens to do so. do not leave the housesalvo for an essential reason.
Citizens are called to follow right now new instructions, although the law governing this new isolation will not be approved until Wednesday morning at Parliament.
Johnson asked caution on duration of the measure, but mentioned that he hopes to raise gradually quarantine and reopens schools after school holidayhalf of February “If ours knowledge of the virus, and to vaccination is still successful, if deaths begin to decline and if everyone plays their part following the rules“.
Also for Mid-February wait until the first dose of vaccine the four priority groups in immunization campaign: residents and nursing home workers over the age of 80, public health workers (NHS) and the population with pre-existing diseases.
Alarming spread of a new strain
Johnson noted that the new variant -between un 50 and 70% more contagious spreads “from frustrating and alarming way “.
To illustrate the situation, he revealed that the number of hospitalized currently for covid is a 40% higher that at the top first wave “ in April.
Among the guidelines that are part of again quarantine, Johnson urged citizens to stay home and leave their homes alone limited reasons. “
Between them, for “buy essential products, searchr medical help –how to request a covid-19- test, works if absolutely necessary, do exercise or get out of situations domestic abuse.
Regarding colleges and universities, These centers will operate remotely from tomorrow until mid-February, although childcare services will remain operational, such as day centers.
Johnson also pointed out the “big difference” between the new one quarantine and the first is that the country is now clogged “in the biggest campaign of vaccination of history “byl United Kingdom, after the introduction today of the compound developed by the university dis Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which joins the training Pfizer / BioNTech.
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Top medical advisers in the country today recommended raising the level of alert -from 4 to 5- and warned that the public health system “could be overwhelmed in 21 days“If they are not adopted tougher measures.
“Without further action, there is a material risk that more NHS areas will be overwhelmed in the next 21 days,” they warned.
“It simply came to our notice then increasing almost everywhere in much of the country, led by the newer variant more transmissible virus“, they explained. EFE