Other than returning to normal on June 21: now there is a fear of a month’s postponement. Because the “Delta” variant, ie the Indian one, is really scary in the United Kingdom, despite almost half the population vaccinated with two doses and 41 million (out of 66) with one. Yesterday another 8,125 cases of coronavirus, a record since last February. By now 90% of cases across the Channel can be traced back to the much more contagious strain of the same so-called “English” variant (+ 60%) and is also more resistant to the vaccines in use, according to public health: a single dose, whether Pfizer or AstraZeneca , it would protect only 33%, while as regards the double dose it would reach about 85% for the German-American vaccine with that of Oxford at about 70.
Even the dead have returned to rise: 18, after the record of zero a few days ago. While the Rt index has risen towards a level between 1.2 and 1.4, that is, the contagion has re-started running. In fact, Delta cases have even grown by 240% in the last two weeks: from 12,431 to 42,323 total. From the beginning of February to June 7, there were 33,206 cases of the Indian variant in England: 19,573 of these (58.9%) are unvaccinated people, 1,785 fully vaccinated individuals (5.3%) and 7,559 with a single dose received (22.7%), the rest of the cases with an unclear vaccination status. In total, 383 people were hospitalized for the Delta variant, of which 42 had received two doses of the vaccine (10.9%), 86 one and 251 unvaccinated. While of the 42 deaths due to the Indian variant, 23 had not been vaccinated, 7 immunized with one dose and 12 with two. Disturbing numbers.
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