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A study found that the UK needs to inoculate 2 million people every week to prevent the third spread of Corona 19. The spread of new cases in the UK has not stopped, with more than 40,000 for the first time on the 28th (local time).
Using modeling techniques, a research team at the London Institute of Sanitation and Tropical Diseases (LSHTM) concluded that inoculation of 2 million people per week is the only scenario that lowers the UK’s corona19 infection rate to the level of the first spread in April, Reuters reported on the 28th.
The British government plans to inoculate 1 million people every week by the middle of next month, 2 million people in mid-January, and 15 million people in March.
“That’s not enough to prevent the third spread,” the LSHTM research team argued, however, saying that “two million people should be vaccinated every week, the highest level of four-step action is imposed across England, and schools should be closed across the UK.” .
The research team warned, “If the vaccine is not widely distributed, new corona 19 confirmed patients, hospitalized patients, middle-aged patients, and dead next year may exceed the level this year.” “Accelerating vaccination will have a much more substantial impact,” he added.
This paper was published in the form of a recommendation in the British journal Sage on the 23rd. This paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, but it is known that it is being shared among the British House of Representatives.
Recently, in the UK, a mutant virus, which spreads up to 70% higher than the existing virus, is rapidly spreading, facing the worst situation. Some government scientific advisors say that the existing four-step countermeasures have limitations in responding to mutant viruses, and that a new five-step response should be established, according to the British Telegraph.
The move to quickly obtain vaccines is also accelerating. The UK government will approve the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine within days. In the UK, the world’s first Pfizer/Bioentech vaccination began on the 8th of this month, and about 620,000 people were vaccinated on the 24th.