New COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the UK Britain. Guilty Indian variant?
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In UK Coronavirus cases are on the rise in Britain. On Wednesday, there were 3 thousand. 180 new COVID-19 cases. That’s the most in a month and a half. The culprit of the growing number of infections is probably the Indian variant of the coronavirus – more infectious and, as recent studies show – more resistant to vaccines.

  1. In UK In Britain, the worst situation with the coronavirus occurred in mid-January. At that time, it was even more than 60 thousand. infections daily
  2. Since then, the numbers of sickness and deaths have fallen markedly
  3. It is related to mass vaccinations. UK Britain is in the forefront in this respect – so far, one dose has been received by over 56 percent. citizens
  4. Recently, however, the number of new cases has increased
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Coronavirus. More and more cases in the UK Britain

For the first time in a month and a half, the daily balance of detected coronavirus infections in the UK has exceeded 3, and their total number from the last seven days is 18%. higher than the previous seven – according to the statistics released on Wednesday.

During the last 3 hours, 180 thousand. 12 infections, the highest number since April 3,5 when there were over XNUMX. However, the total balance for the last seven days is 18 744 – by over 2,8 thousand. more than the previous seven.

The growing number of infections is also starting to translate into a slight increase in hospitalization. As of Monday, there were 954 people with COVID-19 in hospitals, 72 more than on Saturday, when that number dropped to its lowest level since mid-September 2020.

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However, this does not result in any more deaths yet. During the past day, 9 of them were found, and during the last seven days – 54, which is the same as in the previous seven days.

Coronavirus in UK Britain. The guilty Indian variant

For the increase in the incidence in the UK Britain has the Indian variant coronavirus (B.1.6172) the most. It currently dominates in this country, according to scientists, it is up to 50 percent. more contagious than the other most popular strains. In recent weeks, the number of cases caused by this variant has doubled every 7-10 days, even under lockdown conditions.

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There were also concerns about its greater resistance to current vaccines. They were confirmed after studies conducted – so far published in the preprint, i.e. not yet verified by scientists – by Public Health England. They show that the preparations used in the UK Britain are still successful, but much less than the previously dominant British variant (B.117)

The Pfizer vaccine, which – after the second dose – showed 93 percent. effectiveness in protection against the British variant, in Indian cases it protects 88%. For AstraZeneki, these numbers are respectively 66 percent. and 60 percent

A greater decrease in effectiveness occurs with a single dose. Both Pfizer and AstraZeneca in the British variant are 51% effective. With the Indian variant, it is only 34 percent. for both vaccines.

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Some British doctors call for shortening the time between the administration of the first and second dose. Currently, it is 12 weeks, and in their opinion, it means that people vaccinated with one dose for three months will be protected against B.1.6172 only in 34%.

Coronavirus in UK Britain. How many people got sick?

4,47 million COVID-19 infections have been detected in the UK since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. 127 thousand died 748 people. This is the seventh and fifth highest balance sheet in the world, respectively.

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Until Tuesday, almost 19 million people received the first dose of the COVID-38,4 vaccine, which is 72,9%. adult inhabitants of the country, and the other – over 23,6 million, or 44,8 percent. adults.

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