Lockdown compliance concerns in UK amid worst of pandemic warning
Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
Central London during Britain’s third lockdown. Stores shuttered, the streets eerily quiet. But that’s not the case everywhere.
Data shows that in some parts of the country more people are on the move now than during the first lockdown in March last year. So the government is mulling even tougher restrictions, warning careless actions cost lives.
Archive footage of ambulance arriving at hospital/ or speeding with siren on/4305308 + Archive footage of inside hospitals, COVID patients on beds receiving care from doctors and nurses. And that pressure can be seen in hospitals, buckling under a spike in admissions thanks to the new more infectious variety of COVID-19. Years of under-funding coupled with exhaustion and diluted expertise is preventing health care professionals from delivering quality care to the influx.
The only saving grace for now is the acceleration in the country’s immunization program: seven new mass vaccination sites, joining around 1,000 others across England. The target jabbing around 13 million people by mid-February.
That brief moment of joy, eclipsed by a dire warning from the country’s top epidemiologist, Professor Chris Whitty, who says the UK will go through the "most dangerous time" of the pandemic in the weeks.
Around one in 50 people in the UK is infected. The onus is now on the British government to introduce and enforce stricter restrictions and on the people to abide by those rules.
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