The United Kingdom announced this Wednesday the lowering of the alert for Covid-19, to level two on a scale of five, thanks to the lower impact on health services, justified the Ministry of Health.
The decision, taken on the advice of the health directors of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, means that the virus continues to circulate in the population, but pressures on the health system and transmission remain stable or decrease.
“Hospitals and health systems in general remain extremely busy in general, but the summer surge caused by [estirpes] BA.4 and BA.5 [da variante Ómicron] it is slowing down and direct serious illness derived from covid is now a much smaller proportion, ”he explained, in a statement.
According to the British government, the serious cases, the number of deaths and the level of contagion decrease, despite the existence of a risk of new surges and an increase in cases due to strains BA 4.6 and BA.2.75, it is not expected that they will affect services Of health.
Earlier this year, the executive lifted all restrictions in England, including the mandatory use of masks, prophylactic isolation for infected people and tests for international travelers, despite the advancement of the Omicron variant, considered the most transmissible to date.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson invoked at the time that the success of the vaccination campaign and the discovery of new treatments to keep the virus under control made it possible to move forward with the “Living with Covid” plan.
The most recent data from England indicated that in the seven days to August 19, there were 30,318 cases and 620 deaths from covid-19, 25.1% and 28.2% less than in the previous seven days, and the Hospitalization trend was also down 20% on August 22.
In total, 69.2% of the population over 12 years of age have already been immunized with three doses of a vaccine, 88.1% received two doses and 93.5% only one dose.
Source: Observadora
