The government British on Wednesday, December 30, the confinement applied to part of England and postponed the start of the school year for some students in order to counter a surge in the number of cases of the new coronavirus attributed to a variant of the virus, and which increasingly affects children.
Several British hospitals are worried about the growing number of children hospitalized for Covid-19. The country has been under extended confinement since December 31 and more than 50,000 daily cases are recorded.
In a radio interview BBC and at Telegraph, the director of King’s College Hospital in London reported “Whole rooms” dedicated to children with Covid-19. Children and young adults who had no problems previously. “We have children coming. They were only very little affected during the first wave ”, a dit Laura Duffell.
Re-entry postponed
The middle school and high school students in England also see their return to school postponed by a week for those with exams at the end of the year, and two weeks for others, Education Minister Gavin Williamson announced in Parliament.
Primary school students “in a small number of regions with the highest infection rates” will also be affected, even if “the majority of primary schools will reopen as planned on Monday January 4,” added the minister.
The United Kingdom is one of the most affected by the pandemic in Europe with more than 72,500 dead, including 981 recorded on Wednesday, a daily record compared to the first wave of Covid-19.
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