(Fighting against New Crown Pneumonia) British National Bureau of Statistics: British New Crown death toll exceeds 50,000
China News Agency, London, June 3 (Zhao Xingyiping) The National Bureau of Statistics (ONS) released the statistical data of the new coronavirus epidemic on the 2nd. After 10 weeks of entering the "epidemic blockade" state, the number of deaths in the UK exceeded 50,000 for the first time people.
The picture shows a clinical worker wearing protective equipment in the intensive care unit of Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, United Kingdom, caring for patients with new coronary pneumonia.
The data shows that according to the statistics completed on May 22, the death toll of the British New Coronavirus had reached 44401 at that time, plus the latest statistics, the cumulative total death toll reached 50032. The number of deaths in the UK is higher than that in Italy, France and Spain, and it has become one of the most severely affected countries in Europe.
Severe death figures have raised questions about the government's anti-epidemic goals and strategies from all sectors of British society. In the early days of the New Crown Virus outbreak, Patrick Valence, the chief scientific adviser of the British government, once said that controlling the death toll below 20,000 would be a "good result" that the government strives to achieve. Within weeks of the epidemic, medical staff faced a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). It is now widely believed that it is too late to implement the "epidemic blockade" measures on March 23.
Faced with doubts, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson continued to implement new measures to gradually relax the restrictions on the "epidemic blockade". On June 1st, the British elementary school resumed classes, and the newly released “Guidelines on Epidemic Prevention” stipulates that “high-risk” seniors who have been recommended to stay at home since the beginning of the “epidemic blockade” can now go out with their families or outside with another No more than 6 people in the family meet together.
At the government’s daily outbreak conference held on the 2nd, British Health Minister Matthew Hancock said a study by the British Public Health Department showed that ethnic minorities are at higher risk of dying from the new coronavirus. Hancock said the disturbing report was timely, "more work needs to be done to understand what caused these differences." (Finish)