British health officials said on the 4th that the symptoms of new covid-19 hospitalized patients in the United Kingdom are generally milder than in the past, and there is no need to further tighten the epidemic prevention policy at this stage.
Speaking to Sky News, Maggie Slupp, Parliamentary Secretary for Vaccines and Public Health affairs at the Department of Health and Social Health, said: "At the moment, if you look at (COVID-19) hospitalized patients, their symptoms are milder than ever... The number of hospitalized cases is about half of what it was a year ago, showing the power of vaccines. ”
Slupp said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's "Responding to COVID-19: Plan B" proposed last December was working. The plan requires people to wear masks in most indoor public places, work from home as much as possible, and show vaccination certificates when entering crowded places.
The recent surge in new confirmed covid-19 cases in the UK in a single day, but Johnson refused to implement stricter anti-epidemic restrictions on new Year's Eve. The data shows that from 27 December 2021 to 2 this month, more than 1.1 million people in the UK tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 43% over the previous week.
Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said cases of COVID-19 infection under the age of 50 in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, may have stabilized. Despite the surge in infections in this group, the outbreak has not yet reached the older groups that are more susceptible to infection. (Xinhua News Agency)
Source: Yangcheng Evening News
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