By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton
LONDON (Reuters) – The UK will face an exponentially expanding mortality rate of COVID-19 in the coming weeks unless urgent action is taken to reduce the wave of epidemics at a time, the country’s most sensitive doctors said Monday.
The UK already has the official number of COVID-19 deaths in Europe, and the fifth in the world, as it borrows record amounts to verify and pump emergency cash to the broken economy.
But new instances of COVID-19 are expanding through at least 6,000 per day in Britain, according to one-week data, hospital admissions double every 8 days and the test formula deforms.
Chris Whitty, the government’s lead medical officer, and Patrick Vallance, its lead clinical adviser, warned that if there were no restrictions, the epidemic would be successful at 50,000 new cases a day by mid-October in the UK.
“If this continues on the wayArray . . . the number of deaths due directly to COVIDArray . . . will continue to increase, potentially on an exponential curve, it means doubling and doubling and doubling backwards and can temporarily go from very small numbers to very giant numbers “Whitty said.
“If we don’t do enough, the virus will take off and right now obviously that’s how we are and if we don’t replace course, we’re going to end up with a very delicate problem. “
The virus spreads to all parts of the country and less than 8% of the population has antibodies to the virus, in London, about 17% of the population would possibly have antibodies, Vallance said.
Speed and action are urgently needed, Vallance and Whitty said, adding that as winter approaches, the COVID challenge would leave Britain for at least six months.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the new restrictions would be others of the last time. The government will take strong action against socialization, but schools and many workplaces will remain open.
“Great place to stay”
Medical chiefs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have said that the four countries are transferred to the COVID-19 “Level 4” alert: an epidemic is circulating; transmission is maximum or increases exponentially.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the leaders of the three delegated countries that the accumulation of COVID-19 cases was a source of “great concern” and we decided to work with their administrations to combat the virus.
The Sun newspaper reported that Johnson would announce a final hour at 10 p. m. for pubs, bars and restaurants. On Tuesday, he plans to address Parliament on the coronavirus factor.
Northern Ireland said it would increase restrictions in some locations for families that combine indoors throughout the province from Tuesday, while Wales imposed restrictions in 4 other areas, also as of Tuesday, leaving just under a third of the Welsh population restricted.
Welsh measures prevent others from entering spaces without an excuse for reason such as school or work. People will also only be able to meet other people they don’t live with outside.
Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said additional restrictions would almost be imposed.
The death toll in the UK is 41,788.
(Report through Guy Faulconbridge, Kate Holton, Estelle Shirbon; Editing via Angus MacSwan, Tothrough Chopra and Gareth Jones)