With an increase in the Indian Variant cases in the UK, the government introduced second vaccine doses and local restrictions towards the wort-affected areas.
According to Minister Nadhim Zahawi, the government would start vaccinating youngsters in multi-generational households.
Also, a topmost scientist has warned about lifting restrictions until 21 June due to the Indian strain.
Coronavirus cases have been more than doubled to 1,313, as said by Public Health England.
About 1,255 COVID-19 cases are found in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales.
But WHO is afraid that these figures were recorded about two weeks ago, and currently it may be higher.
Prof Paul Hunter, who is one of the members of the Covid advisory committees for the WHO, told that the Indian variant has now spread in most of the regions in the UK.
Yorkshire and Humber and north-east England might be the only exceptions.
Recently four people have lost their lives with the Indian variant of concern as of May 12.
According to Friday’s government figures, a further 17 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,193 coronavirus cases have been recorded.
The Department of Health and Social Care said there was “no firm evidence yet to show this variant has any greater impact on severity of disease or evades the vaccine”.
Lockdown easing ‘in doubt’
On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the general public that there is no such evidence to suggest England’s plan to a total lockdown.
The next major easing of restrictions is due to take place on 17 May.
Prof Hunter thinks that the new variant was spreading more in youngsters and the people who are not yet vaccinated.
Therefore, if the cases kept on rising in the elderly, it would become difficult for the authorities to handle hospital admissions. Hence, putting pressure on the NHS.
But the question arises, why could the Indian variant be a problem when the vaccination programme is doing so well?
The thing is that they still don’t know how transmissible the Indian variant is.
The situation would be very different in autumn when overall levels of immunity would be making it harder for the virus to spread.
So, you can say that we are in a delicate phase where restrictions are being eased as more and more vaccinations are trying to suppress the spread of the deadly virus.
