{"id":434,"date":"2021-01-09T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T09:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.keonthemes.com\/travelbiz\/?p=18"},"modified":"2021-01-23T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T09:08:22","slug":"uk-new-covid19-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"UK new Covid19 Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New variant of coronavirus in the UK may be deadlier than the original virus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preliminary evidence indicates the more transmissible B.1.1.7 variant of the coronavirus first identified in the UK\u00a0may additionally be more deadly, UK prime minister Boris Johnson told a press briefing on Friday. The government was briefed by researchers in the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, who are assessing the data on the variant, which appears to be about 30 per cent more deadly. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at Imperial College London\u00a0who analysed data on the new variant\u00a0concluded it is between 29 and 36 per cent more lethal, whereas researchers at the University of Exeter put the figure at 91 per cent. The UK\u2019s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, said the evidence on lethality \u201cis not yet strong\u201d, adding: \u201cbut it is obviously a concern\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s coronavirus epidemic may be shrinking, as the\u00a0R number\u00a0\u2013 the number of people each person with covid-19 infects \u2013 was found to be at or below 1.0 for the first time since early December. The\u00a0latest official estimate<\/a>\u00a0for the R number puts it at between 0.8 and 1.0. Separate figures from the Office for National Statistics\u2019\u00a0random swab testing survey\u00a0indicate the number of new cases may be levelling off slightly across England, Wales and Scotland, although cases still appear to be rising sharply in Northern Ireland. An estimated one in 55 people in England had the virus in the week up to 16 January, compared to one in 50 people two weeks earlier. In Northern Ireland, the estimated infection rate jumped from one in 200 in the previous survey to one in 60 in the most recent one. Equivalent figures for Wales and Scotland in the most recent week were one in 70 and one in 100 people estimated to have had the virus.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People in England\u00a0attending house parties of more than 15 people\u00a0will receive \u00a3800 fines starting next week. Home secretary Priti Patel told a Downing street press conference that there remained a \u201csmall minority that refuse to do the right thing\u201d. But some scientists, including members of the Independent SAGE group, are calling for the government to tighten restrictions in England, arguing that the main problem is that the existing rules are too permissive, rather than people not abiding by them. \u201cThe problem is not that people are flexing the rules but that the rules are too flexible,\u201d Stephen Richer at the University of St Andrews told an\u00a0Independent SAGE briefing<\/a>. When people do break the rules \u2013 for example, by not staying home when they have symptoms\u00a0\u2013\u00a0it is often because they have little choice, added Susan Michie at University College London. \u201cPeople are going out because they haven\u2019t got enough income in order to stay home,\u201d she said at the briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK government said it has\u00a0no plans to start paying \u00a3500 to people who test positive\u00a0for the coronavirus in England after\u00a0reports in the\u00a0Guardian<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that ministers were considering the idea. \u201cThere are no plans to introduce an extra \u00a3500 payment,\u201d said a spokesperson for UK prime minister Boris Johnson. The idea was reportedly prompted by government polling, which suggested only 17 per cent of people with symptoms are coming forward for testing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New variant of coronavirus in the UK may be deadlier than the original virus Preliminary evidence indicates the more transmissible B.1.1.7 variant of the coronavirus first identified in the UK\u00a0may additionally be more deadly, UK prime minister Boris Johnson told a press briefing on Friday. The government was briefed by researchers in the New and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santoriniworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}