LONDON – A new national lockdown? a possibility according to one of Boris Johnson’s chief scientific advisors, who today will announce new measures in the fight against Covid. With the arrival of autumn, the situation in UK hospitals becomes critical. Six hundred hospitalizations a day, for a total of 4000 beds, occupied by patients affected by the virus, a level that is a few units lower than that reached before the general closure imposed in the United Kingdom in March.
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If for Professor Peter Horby, who heads the group on new respiratory viruses, the country is in one precarious situation and is approaching the point of no return, the premier on Sunday afternoon illustrated to his government ministers a three-tier emergency system that provides for different restrictions depending on the number of cases registered in each region. Today the announcement in parliament. THEThe highest level, which could affect cities like Liverpool and Manchester, would include, according to rumors, the closure of pubs and restaurants and the prohibition of mixing households indoors and outdoors. Municipalities and regions, however, accuse the executive of making decisions without consultations and, above all, regardless of the different needs and economic priorities. Sir Richard Leese, head of Manchester city council, spoke of an open gulf between London and the regions: It is virtually impossible for us to enter the Westminster bubble, he said, while from Liverpool Mayor Jo Anderson stressed that the measures risk to restore the city to the levels of poverty and unemployment of the 1980s.
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Jonathan Van-Tam, Johnson’s other scientific advisor, wanted to highlight the progress made in tackling the virus: At the beginning of the year we were fighting a semi-invisible disease, which we knew little about. We now know how to deal with ithe said, adding that the time has come to take the opportunity to prevent history from repeating itself by taking tougher measures. The minister for the regions, Robert Jenrick, has promised greater coordination between the government and local authorities, but the numbers indicate that time is running out: 15,000 new cases nationwide on Saturday, about 13,000 yesterday. Many even in schools – almost 1300 in the last week of September – so that the teachers’ union is asking for a review of the precautions taken by the institutions. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of university students find themselves locked in universities with the impossibility of going out and food delivered to the room.
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11 October 2020 (change October 12, 2020 | 00:02)
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