Rome, 21 September 2020 – Great Britain is on the verge of a second wave of Covid-19, with the specter of a new lockdown for London increasingly concrete. Yesterday, the British Prime Minister announced that very high fines – from 10 thousand pounds each – will come into force for anyone who breaks self-isolation which will be made mandatory by law for all people who come into contact with someone with the disease. The return of the Coronavirus in the autumn had been expected for months, but the country seems unable to organize itself in a serious way: there are no …
Rome, 21 September 2020 -The Great Britain is on the verge of a second wave of Covid-19, with the spectrum of a new lockdown for London more and more concrete. Yesterday, the British Prime Minister announced that very high fines – from 10 thousand pounds each – will come into force for anyone who breaks self-isolation which will be made mandatory by law for all people who come into contact with someone with the disease. The return of the Coronavirus in the autumn had been expected for months, but the country seems unable to organize itself in a serious way: tampons are missing practically everywhere, impossible appointments must be made online to show up at diagnostic centers and those few who succeed are sent to the other. part of the country to be buffered. Furthermore, it takes more than 48 hours to receive the results, with the tracing of contacts exposed to the virus which is, as the leader of the opposition Keir Starmer said, in “utter chaos”.
Schools restarted in early September and, in parallel, the government encouraged the population to return to work, after the economy practically collapsed during the national lockdown in March. But just a few weeks after the attempt to return to normal, the cases continue to multiply (yesterday it was 3,899, but last week it was over 5 thousand a day) and the reproduction factor R is back at 1.5. London hospitals record an increase in the influx of intensive care units and there are new problems in nursing homes, theaters of the largest number of deaths in the first months of the year (more than 25 thousand elderly people died).
Among the measures planned this week, there could be a new lockdown in the capital, strongly desired by the mayor Sadiq Khan. Health Minister Matt Hancock didn’t rule him out yesterday. “Discussions are underway about a potential lockdown in London – were his words during an interview with Sky News -. People relaxed over the summer, now is the time for everyone to go back to following the rules “. Meanwhile, local confinement in the UK will cover tomorrow 15 million people.
Boris Johnson he promised the country the “best system in the world” of tests, but the reality is quite different and the virus seems to be out of control again. According to experts, an immediate lockdown is needed to avoid the mistakes made in March, when Britain waited too long to impose the restrictive measures, with tragic consequences. The problem, according to many analysts, would be the resistance of the British to wear masks and to maintain social distances, fundamental for the control of the pandemic. The country, during the summer, seems to have forgotten the lethality of the virus and, with the guard down, it is clear that the cases are piling up.
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