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Britain in trouble again

Post by Bobby » Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:53 pm

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/20/uk/u ... index.html


Boris Johnson declared the pandemic all but over.
Now UK cases are soaring


By Rob Picheta, CNN

Updated 0423 GMT (1223 HKT) October 20,


Hospitals in Britain are now close to buckling once again under the strain of new admissions.


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London (CNN)Last December, as the first of several worrying Covid-19 variants ripped through the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the unwelcome decision to cancel Christmas plans for millions of Brits.
"We are sacrificing our chance to see loved ones this Christmas, so we have a better chance of protecting their lives so we can see them at future Christmases," Johnson said, taking a potentially career-defining step that he had ruled out just days earlier.
Ten months later, the UK's attitude towards the Covid-19 has changed beyond recognition. Virtually all of England's restrictions were lifted in July, with the events and hospitality sectors returning to full capacity as Johnson urged Britons to "begin to learn to live with this virus."

But the Delta variant -- more transmissible still than the Alpha strain which wrecked last year's festivities -- has not gone away.

The country has quietly endured stubbornly high cases, hospitalizations and deaths when compared to the rest of Europe. Britain has registered nearly half a million cases in the past two weeks -- and almost 50,000 on Monday -- more than France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined.
The UK reported 223 deaths on Tuesday, the highest daily figure since early March.

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Re: Britain in trouble again

Post by Black Orchid » Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:35 pm

Cases will go up here too because the vaxxed still spread it. They won't be able to blame the unvaxxed because they're still locked up.

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Re: Britain in trouble again

Post by Bobby » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:46 pm

Black Orchid wrote:
Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:35 pm
Cases will go up here too because the vaxxed still spread it.
They won't be able to blame the unvaxxed because they're still locked up.

There is also talk of new variants in the UK:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/we ... uk-variant

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