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Despite the fact that at the beginning of the week he claimed not to have had time to read the report, Boris Johnson has not ignored the warning issued by his experts: if you do not act promptly and forcefully, the second wave of the coronavirus can take your life than 120,000 people in the UK. The Prime Minister, who today presented a battery of measures to cushion the advance of the pandemic in this second half of the year, has announced an extra 3,300 million euros for the budget of the National Health System (NHS), in addition to committing to increase up to half a million the number of tests that can be processed each day.

"We want to make sure that we are prepared for winter, so we need to prepare for the worst. Still, I also think we should expect the best," said the conservative leader. To avoid collapse, private health centers will continue to be linked to the public system and Nightingale's field hospitals will continue to operate at least until March next year, whether or not they are finally necessary.

The opinion of the experts, led by Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser to the Government, is that the coronavirus crisis may be aggravated by a bad year of influenza , so it is necessary to increase the daily capacity of test processing to quickly identify the virus and be effective in controlling its spread. The similarity in some of their symptoms between the two diseases means that a scenario can be reached in which it is necessary to go from the current 100,000 daily tests to the 360,000. "Right now we don't have enough capacity," acknowledges Vallance, although the Executive has set itself the goal of reaching half a million tests by the end of October.

"I am hopeful that we can review these tremendous restrictions starting in November at the earliest, but we hope that the return to normality will come in time for Christmas," Johnson said at a press conference. "Confinement at the national level was, without a doubt, the right thing to do, and that has helped us save thousands of lives. Now, however, we know more about the virus, we understand better the epidemiology and our knowledge about its expansion has also grown. That means we can control it locally. "

In this sense, and since the management of the pandemic is also managed from the different territories of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister has announced that he will give more power to English local administrations so that they are able to act against possible outbreaks by closing premises, restricting entry to outdoor spaces and canceling events that they believe may be dangerous to public health.

Of course, Johnson does not want to miss the opportunity to reactivate, even minimally, the activity in England, so the Government is no longer going to continue recommending that only public transport be used for essential trips. This is, therefore, one more step in the relaxation of the confinement measures , since from August 1 it will also stop warning against returning to face-to-face work and will open bowling alleys, skating rinks, casinos and services such as that provided by beauty salons. In order for live performances and public sporting events to return, some preliminary tests must be carried out, especially in the latter case with an eye toward autumn, but discotheques and parks, however, will remain closed until further notice.

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