Vaccines: in Great Britain over 36 million doses, of which 5 are boosters

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02 April 2021 31.3 million British citizens have received their first dose of Covid vaccine and 5 million have been given the second dose, for a total of over 36 million people in three months of vaccination campaign.

The data is from April 1st.

The new

also continue to decline

, the data speak of no more than 3,402 in the last 24 hours surveyed, on a daily average of swabs exceeding one million.

As for

,

The sum of Covid patients admitted to all hospitals in the United Kingdom, with a few patients forced to assisted ventilation and free ICU places fell below 4,000.

It is a matter of a few hundred people.

Also confirmed a level of

daily

at the lowest for 6 months with 53 deaths.

Updated data was provided by Boris Johnson's government.

The

of spread of the pandemic

also remains stable

, ranging between 0.7 and 0.9 in all the territories of Great Britain, therefore below the risk threshold 1 beyond which the contagion is considered exponential.

The surge in recent months was caused by the very aggressive 'English' variant that was brought under control due to the third national lockdown and the massive vaccination campaign that started on December 8, 2020.

These results were hailed with pride by both the premier , Boris Johnson, who by the Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, who by the government head of vaccines, Nadhim Zahqawi.

In addition, doses of the US Moderna vaccine are imminent.

The UK expects over 500,000 doses of this vaccine to add to the millions of doses from Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

This will pave the way for the immunization of those under the age of 50 in Great Britain.

The British government also plans to launch a

for risk categories in

September

to protect them from the new variants of the Coronavirus.

Minister Nadhim Zahawi explained that the first recalls will be addressed to four priority groups: nursing home staff, health personnel, patients with serious illnesses and those over 70.

The minister in charge of distributing the Zahawi vaccine added that the government expects eight different vaccines will be available in the fall, one of which will be a single-dose serum capable of protecting against three different variants.

The executive, the minister said, will try to produce as many vaccines as possible on British territory in light of the clash with the EU on exports.