British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce on Monday that starting next week, people who test positive for COVID-19 in the UK do not need to self-isolate, and he will lift all restrictions on COVID-19, according to Sky News on February 20. The decision was criticized as "unwise" and "premature."
The full lifting of the lockdown means England will have to coexist with a new champions, and Boris Johnson believes that vaccine plans, trials and new treatments will be enough to keep the public safe. The reason for this plan is that the epidemic in the UNITED Kingdom has been greatly alleviated, and in the past 24 hours, there have been 34,377 new confirmed cases of the epidemic in the United Kingdom and 128 new related deaths, a significant decline in the number of people.
Johnson said in a statement: "The coronavirus is not going to disappear suddenly, we need to learn to live with this virus and continue to protect ourselves without restricting our freedom." "Over the past two years, we have established strong precautions against this virus through the promotion of vaccines, testing, new treatments, and understanding of this virus, and we now have the confidence to coexist with the virus."
Maintaining surveillance systems England will retain 'surveillance systems and contingency measures' which will be used "where necessary" to deal with new variations. There are reports that government-funded infection sampling may be eliminated, which means that the government will no longer provide free rapid testing for asymptomatic people, and the government will no longer provide free PCR testing for ordinary people except for vulnerable people and people in hospitals and high-risk environments. But Downing Street seems to have opened its doors to these studies, promising to maintain "resilience to future variation, and continuous monitoring capabilities."
An immature decision, President of the British Medical Association Chad Dr. Chaand Nagpaul said the decision was "premature" and "not based on the available evidence". "It's clear that it's not backed up by data and it's not consulting with the health care department." Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Wes Wes Streeting called on the government to release the evidence behind the decision to convince the public that it was in the national interest, rather than to quell the party rebellion by diverting attention from the "party door" scandal in the prime minister's office.
Whether the comprehensive unsealing can work in the end, whether the epidemic will be repeated, no one knows what the future situation will be, let us wait and see.