According to the Guardian, the Daily Mail and other reports on March 31, according to the British government plan, starting on April 1, local time, the new crown virus testing service will start to charge most people. On March 31, Patrick Valance, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, reminded at a virtual meeting that another variant could sweep the world, and that it was important to remain vigilant against the coronavirus, that "there is still a lot of room for evolution of this virus" and that the world "could once again be surprised by a variant that escaped immunity". Jenny Harris, head of the UK's Health Security Agency, also called for masks to continue to be worn despite high infection rates.
There is still a lot of room for viruses to evolve
Patrick said at a virtual meeting of the Royal Society that the pandemic "is not over yet" and noted that "at the moment our infection rates are very high".
"And there's still a lot of room for this virus to evolve, so we might be surprised again about a variant that escapes immunity." He said.
He also warned that future epidemics will be very different from current ones: "There will be a pandemic in the future. What it will be, we don't know, but certainly not as this time. ”
The top scientist said countries need to be able to prepare a "reliable" vaccine that can be mass-produced, along with drugs and tests, within 100 days of the discovery of a new infectious virus.
At the same time, the World Health Organization has warned that if the virus mutates in infected animals before it is transmitted to humans, a new strain of COVID-19 will emerge.
This will lead to an "effective reset" where all of humanity will be vulnerable to the new strain.
Three COVID-19 variants have been reported
When an individual is infected with 2 or more COVID-19 variants at the same time, recombinant variants are produced.
At present, the UK has reported the restructuring of 3 NEW CROWN variants.
The UK Health Security Agency analysed 3 situations, namely XE, the reorganization of TheOmecroon BA.1 and BA.2, and the XD and XF for the Reorganization of Delta and the Semiqueron BA.1.
The data shows a cumulative 38 XF cases and 637 XE cases in the UK; no XD cases have been detected, but 49 cases have been reported in the global database, most of them in France.
UK health services are under 'enormous pressure'
A new poll shows that mask wearing rates across the UK have fallen to their lowest level in two years, with less than a third of Britons aged 18 to 24 admitting they still wear masks in public places. 1 in 8 Britons admit they have never taken the COVID-19 test.
Mask wearing rates across the UK have fallen to their lowest level in two years Source: The Daily Mail
As the UK recently lifted most of its epidemic prevention measures, daily cases in the UK have soared to their highest level since January.
Almost half (45%) of respondents are concerned that the outbreak in the UK is worsening as cases continue to be high while deaths and hospitalizations climb.
JENNY HARRIS, chief executive of the HEALTH SECURITY Agency, has called for Britons to continue wearing masks in the face of high infection rates.
Jenny Harris Source: PA
As the epidemic has squeezed medical resources, uk health services are also under "tremendous pressure", and there have been many cases where ambulances have not been able to reach the scene in time.
Earlier, there were media reports that a 69-year-old man in North Wales fell in the city center, unable to move, and waited on the road for a full 10 hours before waiting for an ambulance.
And even when they get to the hospital, more than a quarter of patients are forced to wait at least 30 minutes in an ambulance outside the hospital before being treated.
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