in fact, there was nothing normal about november. the uk would go into a second lockdown. and in november, mrjohnson was asked about christmas. to which he responded, i have no doubt that people will be able to have as normal a christmas as possible . and in mid december, his message was the same. we don t want to, as i say, to ban christmas, to cancel it, and i think that would be frankly inhuman, and against the instinct of many people in this country. three days later, the prime minister had announced a raft new restrictions for christmas. the kent variant, now known as alpha, had driven cases to such a degree he acknowledged a change of course was needed. as well as that, after christmas, a further lockdown followed. in february of this year, as the government announced its roadmap out of it, its language was more cautious. our approach is to move with the utmost care and advancing in four
but in the older people, we saw that this weakening of the association between infection rate and hospitalisations and death has maintained, and it is actually in the younger people as you said where people have not been vaccinated on the whole. i might have mist it, but what is the variant leading this growth? yes, we really saw a big change from our last survey which was primarily the alpha variant or kent variant, which has now been replaced mainly by the delta variant which is the end of our survey was around 90% estimated of infections with the delta event, that was first described in india. the population that is vaccinated, primarily i am assuming the older population, are there any concerns
we saw that this weakening of the association between infection rate and hospitalisations and death has maintained, and it is actually in the younger people as you said where people have not been vaccinated on the whole. i might have missed it, but what is the variant leading this growth? yes, we really saw a big change from our last survey which was primarily the alpha variant or kent variant, which has now been replaced mainly by the delta variant which is, the end of our survey there was around 90% estimated of infections with the delta event, that was first described in india. of the population that is vaccinated, primarily i am assuming the older population, are there any concerns there, is that infection rate more or less subdued now because they are vaccinated?
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0n the current trajectory, we could see january levels of infection by the end ofjuly, and there is uncertainty about what impact that might have on hospital admissions. sadly, we are in the grip of the early stages of a third wave of the virus. and it is this delta variant which, the so called india variant, which has a very significant transmission advantage over the previous alpha variant, the so called kent variant. the hope is the increase in cases will start to fade in coming weeks because so many people have been vaccinated. most people getting infected with delta have not been immunised, and they are tending to be younger and recovering quicker. and there is more good news on vaccines. analysis by public health england confirms they offer high levels of protection against severe illness with the delta variant. 0ne dose is good, but two is better, so the race continues