According to the Department of Health and Social Care, in the last hours another 140 deaths related to the disease were also confirmed, for a total of 11.6 million people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 147 thousand 573 deaths.
It also reported that there are just over eight thousand citizens hospitalized with symptoms of Covid-19, and of them, 849 are attached to artificial respiration equipment.
The United Kingdom is going through a new wave of the pandemic after the arrival of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, much more contagious than all the previous ones.
Scientists advise the government to increase social restrictions prior to Christmas and the holidays around the end of the year, to protect the public health system, already badly battered after almost two years of battling the disease.
The British Prime Minister, the conservative Boris Johnson, who weeks ago restored the mandatory use of the mask in closed spaces and imposed vaccination passports for nightclubs and mass events, considers, however, that for now no more anti-Covid measures will be necessary -19, much less a lockdown.
This Wednesday, the Ministry of Health announced, instead, that infected people will be able to finish the period of self-isolation in seven days, instead of 10, if they have two consecutive negative results to rapid antigen tests.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization recommended, for its part, vaccinating children between the ages of five and 11 in conditions of risk or vulnerable to Covid-19 with the Pfizer / BioNTech immunogen, at an interval of eight weeks between the first and second doses.
Until now, the vaccines are only applied to those over 12 years of age, and according to this Wednesday’s report, of the 47.1 million people with the complete scheme, more than 53.6 percent received the so-called dose of reinforcement, which is believed to also protect against Omicron.
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