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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had good news for the country on Monday after months of lock-in, saying a “unique” vaccination program meant he was “now traveling on a one-way road to freedom. “
The locking discount for England will come in a number of stages and will depend on data at all levels, he said. The first phase will see schools in England reopen on March 8. The latter, planned for June 21, will remove all restrictions on mixing and reopening any areas that remain closed, such as nightclubs.
The UK has been one of the worst hit countries in the pandemic, with the fourth highest number of infections after the US, India and Brazil. To date, it has counted more than 4.1 million cases of coronavirus and has died 120,810 deaths from the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
It has seen a sharp rise in cases entering winter as a new, more contagious strain of the virus has emerged in the south – east of the country. It has now become the mainstay of the virus across the country, and has been found in several countries around the world, along with other strains of the virus.
One silver lining in the UK ‘s knowledge of pandemic is its vaccine response. She was the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine, the candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech.
He then agreed and began administering the AstraZeneca-Oxford University injection, a cheaper vaccine issued in the UK that is easier to transport and store than a competing job. On Saturday, more than 17.5 million Britons have received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine, with more than 600,000 receiving both doses, according to government data.
New diseases fall
Data show that new infections are falling, with early studies showing that coronavirus vaccines also help prevent the spread of the virus, as well as prevent serious infection.
In the last seven days, the UK has seen 77,432 new cases of coronavirus, down 16.2% from the previous weekly census. The number of deaths in the last seven days, 3,414 deaths, is also 27.4% lower than the previous seven days count. Hospitals are also falling.
This is a news story and will be updated soon.
– Holly Ellyatt from CBS contributed to this article.