The rest is for subscribers only.New Covid restrictions are unlikely to be imposed before Christmas amid deep cabinet divisions but Boris Johnson warned further measures remain on the table, with data on the threat of Omicron monitored “hour by hour”. He wants proof that the contaminations in Scotland, where the team had been eliminated on June 22, had started to decline three weeks earlier. “When the Euro stopped, we saw a rapid decline in the number of contaminations”, points out Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia. On the day of the final, hordes of supporters partied all day across the country – until their team was defeated – essentially without masks or social distancing. The football competition saw England reach the final, and each match prompted the English to come together in pubs, fan zones or just in groups at home.
The first comes from Euro 2020, which took place from June 11 to July 11. In the absence of certainties, two main explanations for this paradox have been put forward. “Nobody really knows what’s going on”, acknowledged in an August 4 article of the journal NatureJohn Edmunds, epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, whose models had been crucial in convincing Mr Johnson to impose the first lockdown in March 2020, even mentioned 200,000 cases a day.ĭespite the vaccination, which greatly limits the symptoms, such a level of spread of the disease could overwhelm the health system. Sajid Javid, the Minister of Health, had publicly anticipated a possible peak of 100,000 positive cases per day, which would have been the highest level ever recorded for the pandemic. This trend has taken most epidemiologists by surprise, as well as the UK government itself. Article reserved for our subscribers Read also Covid-19: in England, companies disrupted because of the isolation of employees Epidemiologists taken by surprise Hospitalizations, which had remained low but had accelerated throughout July, also decline: there are 750 admissions per day currently, against 900 at the end of July. The number of positive cases has halved to an average of 26,000 over the past seven days. While masks are no longer mandatory, that there is no longer a gauge to respect in concert halls, nightclubs or football stadiums, the pandemic seems to be receding. Three weeks later, the bet turns out to be the right one.
The Delta variant was then spreading very quickly, and more than 50,000 positive cases per day were recorded, near the peak of the violent third wave in January. “It is vital that we act with caution”, had urged the British Prime Minister to his people. When he announced the lifting of all health restrictions on July 19 for England, Boris Johnson did not hide a certain concern. Coronavirus restrictions lift party on Jin Leeds, UK.
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