Official data for this Monday includes only the number of confirmed cases in England and Scotland in the past 24 hours, and deaths in English soil, due to delays in the census over the weekend in Wales and Northern Ireland.
Hours before the report was released, Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted that the new wave of the pandemic would put a significant strain on public health services.
However, the president reiterated that the government has no plans to implement further restrictions or social distancing measures to contain the Omicron variant, which according to experts is three times more contagious than Delta.
According to Johnson, for now, regulations set forth in the so-called Plan B will be followed, which includes mandatory use of a mask on public transportation and enclosed spaces, working from home when possible, and fortification of passports to enter nightlife and group clubs. events.
The Prime Minister, who urged residents to get a quick antigen test before meeting with someone outside their environment, stressed that vaccination against the virus, we have to continue to be vigilant, we have to continue with Plan B.
Although the vaccination data on Monday does not include Wales either, the report indicates that in the last hours about 16,000 second doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered, for a total of 47.4 million people, which is equivalent to 82.5 percent of the vaccines. UK population, on full immunization schedule.
Of that number, nearly 60 per cent have received their third injection or booster as part of the offensive the government has developed to try to contain the spread of Covid-19 and prevent a torrent of new infections from saturating hospitals’ capacity.
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