• United Kingdom: 90% more infections in a week, the Indian variant worries

  • Covid -19, no deaths in the United Kingdom: it is the first time since the beginning of the pandemic

  • Vaccines, Britain exceeds 60 million doses administered

  • Testing of the third dose of the vaccine is underway in Great Britain

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09 June 2021The rebound of covid cases in the United Kingdom, fueled by the Delta variant (formerly Indian), rises to 7,540, the daily peak of the last 4 months. but the vaccine rush, further accelerated by the Johnson government with the inclusion of over 25s and a record of 1 million bookings in the last 24 hours, seems to continue to slow down the impact of this threat on serious infections: with no more than 6 deaths from yesterday to today and a limited number of hospitalized patients up to a sum of just over a thousand in all national wards. 



The 7,540 new infections of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours represent the maximum since February 26.



Another 136,802 people received a first dose of the vaccine, 313,482 a second dose; the number of fully vaccinated now stands at 28,540,844, while 40,710,319 have had at least one dose. Total doses administered thus rise to 69.3 million.



The Office for National Statistics estimates that about eight out of 10 people in the country have antibodies to the coronavirus, both for the virus and for vaccination.



Expert: "Towards a significant third wave"

The UK is facing "a significant third wave" of coronavirus infections according to a new projection model, but the size of the pandemic will depend on the effectiveness of the vaccine, according to the expert Neil Ferguson who spoke to reporters from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).



"Basically the model says that there is a risk of a significant third wave, but it cannot be definitive on the size, which could be substantially less than or of the same magnitude as the second. It will depend on the effectiveness of vaccines in protecting people from hospitalization and from the mortality of the Delta (Indian) variant and from the others not known ".



Virologist Clementi: "A single dose is not enough"

"The moral of what is happening in Great Britain", where there is a rise in the number of daily Covid infections, while the numbers of deaths remain low at the moment, "is that one dose of vaccine is not enough: it takes two, the complete cycle, for maximum protection ". Massimo Clementi, director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan and professor at Vita-Salute University, explains this to Adnkronos Health.



"The majority of infected subjects are people who have received only the first dose. There are some infected even with 2 doses, but few - highlights Clementi -. We remember that England had made a flag of the choice to vaccinate a lot with one dose . The British have repeatedly said that they have won the first battle against Covid and stopped the virus by being able to quickly vaccinate tens of millions of people with a first dose. Now it has been seen that when a more problematic variant of Sars-CoV-2 arrives. "from the point of view of higher transmissibility," like the Delta "arrived from India," having a lower immunity, conferred by a single dose, is not enough. And in Gb they still have a good number of people vaccinated with a dose,even if they are continuing the immunization campaign in an extensive and massive way ".