Pubs, bars and restaurants will be forced to close from 10 p. m. in England from Thursday on new measures to combat the accumulation of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday.
Britain recorded 4,422 cases of COVID-19 on 19 September, the highest on a single day since last May, when the country was still under national blockade. United Kingdom, where the Johnson government controls fitness policy. On Monday, government clinical advisers warned on television that, at the current rate, the UK could record up to 50,000 new cases a day until mid-October.
“We have reached a dangerous turning point,” Johnson told lawmakers, adding that new regulations can last up to six months. “No one underestimates the demanding situations that the new measures will pose to many Americans and businesses. . . . However, we want to take more steps to control the resurgence of virus cases and protect the NHS [National Health Service]. “
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Johnson also said Tuesday that regulations on where they deserve to wear the masks will be tightened to come with hotel domestic staff and passengers in taxis. Britain has been much slower than many other countries to inspire those dressed in masks, and the government only asks Second, only about 30% of Britons said they wore masks in public, according to a YouGov study, less than respondents in Spain, China, Italy, France, Germany and the United States. Now, 76% of Britons say they wear masks in public places, compared to 79% in the US. U. S. , ministers also said Tuesday that the British deserve to paint from home if they could. Arrange only 4 weeks after urging others to return to their offices to re-enlist the economy.
More measures may be implemented if your instances continue to grow. “I will have to insist that if all our movements fail to reduce the R [virus replication rate] below 1, we reserve the right to deploy greater firepower with particularly greater restrictions,” Johnson said. I need to avoid taking this step . . . however, we can only avoid it if our new measures work and our behavior changes. “
Johnson imposed a national blockade on March 23, which was criticized by many public fitness experts for being too late, after the coronavirus had already been allowed to spread widely in the population. A few days later, Johnson himself was in the hospital with a COVID-19 infection spent three days in an extensive care unit in April, after claiming that doctors had stored his life. While the virus is still sweeping the population, its government has been criticized for what critics have said is its underestimation of the potential severity of COVID-19 in the early months of the year, its inability to do enough to protect non-public protective appliances (PPIs) for key workers, and its abandonment from the effort to insinuate instances of viruses as it spread in communities.
In May, the UK has become the European country most affected by the death toll, beating Italy, one of Europe’s most sensitive hot spots, while a government pandemic control effect has become apparent: the tearing of the virus. Some staff members said they were suffering to find a good enough personal protective team, and others told Channel Four News that they had been under strain to settle for patients who tested positive at COVID hospitals.
In late May, the government’s public message of fitness (‘staying at home, protecting the NHS, saving lives’) took a hit when it became known that Johnson’s leading adviser, Dominic Cummings, had traveled the country while inflamed with COVID-19, in violation of lockdown regulations. “People have sometimes been fine with their acceptance of closure,” says John Ashton, England’s former regional director of public fitness and writer of Blinded through Corona: How the pandemic is ruining Britain’s fitness and wealth. When Johnson refused to fire Cummings, the government’s communications strategy, a major pandemic, was affected, Ashton says. Cummings’ apology, he described his vacation as legal for emergency reasons for childcare, is a smart example of this, leading many Britons to wonder if any exemptions also apply to their own situation. “They started throwing all sorts of distracting things to distract attention from the fact that their own other people who made the regulations weren’t following them,” Ashton says.
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Meanwhile, cases were reduced to manageable levels through blocking. In May, the government took its first steps towards reopening the country with new social estating regulations in the position and brought additional relaxation in July. the economy remains in trouble, especially the hotel sector, which is based on increased assistance. In an effort to revive customer spending on restaurants, the government implemented the “Eat Out to Help Out” program across the UK in August, which presented customers with up to 10 euros ($13) off their meals, provided they ate instead of withdrawing. The initiative was a success, with many restaurants crowded inside and outside the gates while others rushed to dinner outdoors thanks to government subsidies.
But the program would possibly have led to a truly extensive build-up in COVID-19 cases, Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at The University of Oxford, told the British Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee. “[Eat Out to Help Out] was a massive success, however, it potentially led to a sense of construction in some cases,” he said.
As cases began to accumulate in recent weeks and young people returned to school in early September, more and more people have sought tests for the infection. predicted “the massive construction on call that we’ve noticed in recent weeks. “”Obviously, he hasn’t been adequately prepared,” the head of Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee told him. Ashton says the two-month summer school vacation was “wasted” through the government, which said it wasn’t doing enough to make sure the UK health care formula was at the point where the virus inevitably returned.
Ashton, who brazenly criticizes Johnson’s right-wing conservative party, attributes the delays to the evidence to the fact that the government relies on personal enterprises, rather than adopting the technique of a country like Germany, which the pandemic put in position a physically powerful follow-up. and the traceability formula in close coordination with public laboratories, the UK distributed millions of dollars in public cash for testing and tracking to personal companies, adding Deloitte and Serco.
The UK’s largest doctors’ union has also criticised this approach. “Delegating much of the control of source processes and chains of origin to a complex network of external corporations has left the Westminster government with less ability to react quickly and immediately,” he said. Medical Association in a September message on its website. “The result has been weakened and fragmented in the NHS and the local council’s public fitness services, with the country’s ability to respond to COVID-19 hampered. “
The two main reasons for the delays in verifications would be the low capacity of the personal laboratories and the difficulties in recruiting enough trained personnel. These bottlenecks would never have occurred, says Ashton, if the government had been willing to rely more on public resources. “It has been such a high failure check rate in those giant [corporate] labs, while we have dozens of medical schools across the country with their own labs, “he says. ” We’re used to doing this kind of thing. They have other people with no professional experience in this area, but who get cash and think they can do everything. “
“We warned the prime minister months ago that the controls would be set until the fall,” said Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party, in reaction to Johnson’s announcement of the new regulations on Tuesday. “But the government did not listen, pretended there was no problem, it did not act temporarily enough. Now the verification formula no longer runs when we want it.
Johnson’s proposed policy of pubs and restaurants ending before 10 p. m. has been criticized by some for not being enough, asked prominent journalist Piers Morgan on Twitter. “Do you think Covid respects opening hours?”
But it is clear that pubs have at least contributed to the accumulation of COVID-19 cases in the UK. When pubs first opened in early July, the president of the Police Federation of England and Wales said, “What was transparent is that other people can’t/don’t need to distance therself socially. The experts agree. “‘ Whenever you introduce alcohol or other ingredients that harm judgment into a situation, it’s transparent that other people who adhere to social regulations will simply not happen,” Nathalie MacDermott, a clinical professor of infectious diseases at King’s College London, told TIME in August.
Data on COVID-19 infections broken down according to where the infections occurred are difficult to assess because it is difficult to know for sure where a particular person has been exposed to the virus. But according to Public Health England, restaurants were only guilty of 7. 8% of the 1,337 “incidents” of acute respiratory infection in the last 4 weeks when specialist groups were called. (Acute respiratory infections include, but are not limited to, COVID -19. PHE does not make knowledge broken down by facilities only for COVID-19. No data should be available for pubs and bars).
Still, it turns out that the government is involved in other younger people contracting the virus, potentially in bars and restaurants, and passing it on to more vulnerable portions of the population, such as older parents. through contracting a coronavirus and then transmitting it,” said Hancock, the fitness secretary, in early September on a BBC radio screen aimed at a young audience.