The growing number of coronavirus cases has raised fears that the British are reducing social estating too quickly, and the UK’s deputy medical director fears that others have “relaxed too much” over the summer.
Warning others on Monday that they will have to continue to comply with the rules to restrict the spread of COVID-19, Jonathan Van-Tam said: “We want to start taking this very seriously again.
“If we’re careful, we’re going to have a bumpy ride. “
The number of cases had increased through about 1,000, according to the maximum day of August, but has begun to increase in recent days.
In its most recent newsletter on Monday, the Health Ministry reported 2,948 new instances, the current record since May, bringing the total to 350,100.
Van-Tam stated that while knowledge indicated that the greatest accumulation in cases among young people, the organisation of 17 to 21 years, there is also evidence showing a “progressive geographical trend” across the UK.
“Even if you have a decrease in coronavirus, you can still have very serious symptoms and infect others,” Health Minister Matt Hancock wrote on Twitter.
“It is vital that everyone plays their part in following social estating regulations and helping to succeed over this disease,” he said.
In a video shared through the BBC on Monday, Hancock said, “Don’t kill your grandmother by contracting a coronavirus and then transmitting it,” comments that have been mocked by some social media users.
It is vital that everyone plays their part in following the regulations of social estinement and helping to succeed over this disease. LBC #CallTheCabinet pic. twitter. com/Rbevi3RGzE
– Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) September 7, 2020
However, the increase in the number of cases is opposed to a more powerful control capability context since the peak of the first wave earlier this year.
While deaths have increased from 3 to 41,554, Van-Tam asked for caution: “All this is fine to say that hospital admissions and deaths are at a very low point in the UK . . . you can see that when the number of cases increases first in younger segments of the population, they in turn disappear and begin to give the highest rates of disease and hospitalization in older groups.
“And we know this becomes a public fitness problem,” he said.
The increase in cases in the UK continues to jump in Spain and France, two countries where an increasing number of people were hospitalized by COVID-19 during the summer months from June to August.
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