Outgoing Capitol police chief Stephen Sand, who resigned following Trump’s break-in of the building last week, revealed tonight (Sunday to Monday) in an interview with the Washington Post that his attempts to activate the National Guard during the event were thwarted by House officials. He said officials had also objected to leaving National Guard forces on alert despite intelligence assessment that the number of protesters arriving at the scene would be large.
Meanwhile, in recent days the United States has been recording a record-breaking morbidity, with more than 278,000 new carriers per day over the weekend and more than 3,600 dead. Many countries have warned that the coming days will be more difficult due to holiday season infections. Ours, ”Kentucky Governor Andy said in the song.
Added to this is the fear of the consequences of the riot of supporters of the outgoing president on Capitol Hill and the eruption of the Congress building. “We’ve seen people without masks and without keeping their distance in the Capitol,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Center for Disease Control. I therefore think this event will cause a significant spread of the corona virus across the US.
Trump supporters in Washington during congressional vote on Biden victory (Photo: Reuters)
Even in England, where the second week of quarantine is entering, rising morbidity continues to place a burden on the health care system. “My biggest concern is the uncertainty,” admitted Rupert Pierce, a doctor in an emergency room at a London hospital. “We are feverishly preparing for a situation that is not clear. The health care system is not used to such things, not so fast. I just want to know how high this wave will be.”
Yesterday, the head of the paramedic’s college, Tracy Nichols, reported that ambulance crews were facing “unprecedented pressure” and that there were cases where it took nine to ten hours for patients to arrive at hospitals. As a result, London police have announced that they are allocating 75 police officers for ambulance driving in an attempt to alleviate the congestion.
However, yesterday the Minister of Health fromAt Hancock Provide cautious optimism. He noted that more than 200,000 people are vaccinated daily in order to reach a weekly rate of about two million people, and that by this fall all adults will be able to be vaccinated. “We are now storing a third of all people aged 80 and over in the country, so we are making progress, but we have more room to expand,” he said.
Meanwhile, yesterday the health authorities in Japan reported the detection of a new corona mutation, with different characteristics from the English and South African mutations that have caused worldwide panic in recent weeks. The director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan, Traji Wakita, reported that the new version of the virus was discovered in tests performed on four people when they arrived at Anda Airport on January 2, after being in the Amazon region of Brazil. One of the subjects of the virus, in his 40s, was asymptomatic, but was later hospitalized with severe breathing problems., While the others suffered from headaches and sore throats and high fever.
According to the Japanese official, research is still underway to identify the characteristics of the new version, including its transmission and the effectiveness of the vaccines against it, but initial tests have shown it to be different from the mutations found in England and South Africa.