New Delhi: The way covid-19 coronavirus cases are increasing in the UK, It is warning Indicate for the UK. “Britain has turned a corner in the coronavirus pandemic in a bad sense, which means infections will rise at a dangerous pace unless tougher action is taken,” the UK’s top medical advisor said on Moday.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Chris Whitty joined the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance at a Downing Street briefing to present a host of charts and data to warn. The CMO Chris Whitty said that “the rate at which coronavirus is spreading across the country could see 50,000 new cases a day by mid-October without further restrictions,”
“We have, in a bad sense, literally turned a corner, although only relatively recently and If this continued, the number of deaths directly from COVID-19 will continue to rise, potentially on an exponential curve, that means doubling and doubling and doubling again. And you can quickly move from really quite small numbers to really very large numbers because of that exponential process,” Chris Whitty added.
The UK reports around 394,000 cases so far and claimed 18 deaths in 28 days after testing positive for Covid-19 coronavirus. The UK death toll from the virus touched 41,777.
Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance assume that if the current trend of roughly doubling infections every seven days is left unchecked then in the middle of November death rate could see up to 200 plus per day.
Over the coronavirus doubling rate, Patrick Vallance said “The challenge therefore is to make sure the doubling time does not stay at seven days,”
Furthermore, the government advisers also said that even though different parts of the UK were seeing cases rising at different rates, and even though some age groups are affected more than others, the evolving situation “is all of our problem”.
“What we have seen in other countries, and are now clearly seeing here, is that they are not staying just in the younger age groups, and moving up the age bands and the mortality rates will be similar to – slightly lower than they were previously – but they will be similar to what we saw previously,” Whitty said
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock also showed his concerns and said “Britain was at a tipping point, where more restrictive measures may have to be brought-in to slow the accelerating spread of COVID-19.
Last week, The UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson had raised fears of a second wave of the pandemic beginning its sweep across the UK.
At the present, most parts of northern England are already under stricter localised lockdown.
_Vinayak