The alarm is raised in Great Britain for the Omicron variant. Covid hospitalizations increased by 10% in one week, in London by as much as a third, driven by the rapid growth of the new mutation.
As the Chief medical officer of England, Chris Whitty, pointed out, from the latest graphs it emerges that the contagion curve from the Delta variant tends to be flat, while that of Omicron sees a doubling of cases in two days, even more rapidly in some areas of the Village.
For Johnson, who held a press conference today, the third dose of the vaccine is therefore "vital". He recalled that so far the response of the British has been positive, with the record of 656 thousand boosters administered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 24.7 million, and coverage of 90% of those over 70, double the EU average in proportion. and more than double the US.
However, new records of infections are expected between now and Christmas, which is why Whitty has invited the British to reduce social and family contacts during the holidays.
THE CHRISTMAS PARTY - For the premier in the meantime another grain breaks out. The Daily Mirror has published a photo, taken by other media, which portrays the Christmas party in the headquarters of the conservatives on December 14 last year in full lockdown.
The image shows about 25 people, smiling, with glasses of wine in hand, without masks and very close to each other in a space that seems quite small. On one side a table full of food, in defiance of all anti-Covid regulations.
It is an event hosted by the team of Shaun Bailey, then Tory candidate for mayor of London.
At the time, level 2 measures against coronavirus were in place in the British capital, i.e. the ban on indoor reunions between people who did not belong to the same family.
Shortly before the event took place, the government announced that London would move to the stricter level 3 restrictions.
(Unioneonline / L)