Chinanews, December 21st, a comprehensive report, the United Kingdom notified 35928 new confirmed cases of new crown on December 20, a new record of new cases in a single day, with a total of 2040147 confirmed cases.
In recent days, the sudden increase in the British epidemic is related to a newly mutated new coronavirus.
At present, many countries including Denmark and the Netherlands have been infected with the mutant virus, and many countries have urgently restricted the movement of people in the UK.
Data map: On December 8, local time, the UK began to receive the new crown vaccine.
Multiple countries are now infected with mutant new coronavirus cases
The EU will hold a crisis response meeting
British Prime Minister Johnson announced on the 19th that a mutated new crown virus is spreading in London and southeast England, spreading 70% faster than the originally discovered virus.
However, he emphasized that there is no evidence that the mutant virus is more deadly or that the effectiveness of the vaccine against the mutant virus will be weakened.
The British government has reported to the World Health Organization that a new variant of the new coronavirus has been discovered.
On the same day, the British government announced the tightening of epidemic prevention measures during the Christmas period, raising the level of epidemic prevention and control in the capital London and southeast England to a new fourth level.
According to WHO, outside the United Kingdom, Denmark has reported 9 cases of mutated virus infection, 1 case in the Netherlands, and 1 case in Australia.
In addition, Italy notified that, from a sample of a confirmed case, the gene of a new variant of the virus discovered in the UK has been extracted recently.
The Italian Ministry of Health said that the confirmed case returned to Italy from the UK recently.
On the 20th local time, the WHO Regional Office for Europe pointed out that the spread of the epidemic in Europe is accelerating, and countries must double control and preventive measures.
On the same day, an unnamed official of the European Council said that EU member states have exchanged views on the traffic ban measures taken to the United Kingdom. On the 21st, the EU will hold a crisis response meeting for further discussion to coordinate measures.
In addition, the European Medicines Agency will also meet, at which time it is expected to recommend the approval of the vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and German Biotech.
Data map: Local time on December 2nd, Oxford Street, London, UK, people enter the department store to shop.
Grounded flights! Close the border!
Many countries take measures to prevent and control
Since the 20th, many European countries including Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands have successively decided to suspend international flights to and from the UK. Belgium also stopped the Eurostar express train to and from London at the same time, and announced the temporary closure of Belgium from the 20th. The border with the UK.
At the same time, the Minister of Transport of the French Government announced that from midnight on the 20th, France will temporarily ban flights, trains and ferries from the United Kingdom for 48 hours, but people and transportation to the United Kingdom will not be restricted; Austria will ban passengers from the United Kingdom The flight landed in the country.
Bulgaria announced that from 17:00 local time on the 20th, people from the UK must be quarantined for 10 days when entering; Greece announced that from 6 a.m. local time on the 21st, all people from the UK will be required to be quarantined after entry 7 Day; Portugal announced that starting on the 21st, only passengers with Portuguese nationality or residence permits in that country will be allowed to enter the UK, and inbound passengers must present a negative test for the new crown virus on arrival.
The Spanish Prime Minister's Office issued a statement saying that it has requested European Commission President Von der Lein and European Council President Michel to take joint measures at the EU level to prevent flights from the UK from entering the EU.