LONDON: The top British government medical advisor has warned that the number of people being hospitalized with Coronavirus can reach the “quite frightening” level within a few weeks because cases of soaring as a result of more infectious Delta variants and removal of locking restrictions.
Chris Whitty Chief Medical Officer told a webinar organized by the London Science Museum on Thursday that Britain had not yet come out of the forest.
” “I don’t think we have to underestimate the fact that we can get a problem very quickly,” Whitty said.
New Coronavirus infection in the UK is at a height of six months, according to government figures, and the number of people treated in hospitals and dying with Covid-19 is at the highest level since March.
Thursday data shows 3,786 people in hospitals with Covid-19 and 63 deaths related to other viruses.
At the second wave height earlier this year, around 40,000 people in the hospital with Covid-19 and death reached around 1,500 days.
48,553 The confirmed lab case was confirmed on Thursday, the biggest daily number since January 15.
The government has warned that daily infections can reach 100,000 this summer, the previous level is not achieved during the pandemic, with most new cases seen between the younger ones.
Age groups, many of them have not been vaccinated.
The British government, who raised all the remaining legal restrictions on social meetings in the UK on Monday, hoping that the fast vaccine launch would make the lid on the number of serious people.
More than two-thirds of British adults have received vaccine doses, and almost 88% have one dose.
Whitty warned that the number of people in hospitals with Covid-19 doubled every three weeks and could reach “quite frightening numbers” if the trend continued.
“We don’t mean out of the forest, we are in a much better condition because of the vaccine program, and drugs and various other things,” he said.
“But this has a long way to run in England, and there is further to run globally,” he added.
The surge in infection has had the knock-on effect in the number of people who isolated themselves after contacting the confirmed Coronavirus case.
More than 500,000 people were contacted by national health service applications and told to isolate themselves in seven days to 7 July businesses including car makers, meat processing and hospitality places have reported staff shortages because so many employees have been told by the application by the application.
The government has expressed concern about the scale of the problem and checks whether the application can be made less sensitive to reduce the amount that is ping.