At 17:00 local time on January 5 in London (1:00 am on the 6th, Beijing time), British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Chief Medical Officer of the British Government Chris Whitty held a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Downing Street, UK on the latest outbreak in the UK Press conference.
Johnson said that currently about 2% of the population in the UK has been infected with the new crown virus, and the number of new crown patients hospitalized in British hospitals is 40% higher than the peak of the first round of the epidemic in April last year.
The UK’s current plan is to “build an invisible shield” for the elderly and vulnerable people through vaccination.
At present, the United Kingdom has vaccinated 1.3 million people. The United Kingdom will step up to vaccinate four priority groups, including nursing homes, medical system and other workers, as well as people over 70 years old and people who are clinically identified as most vulnerable to infection; After 3 weeks, a quarter of the most vulnerable people will have "significant immunity".
(Headquarters reporter Tian Xiaochun)