Chris Whitty, the chief medical adviser of the British government, warned on the 11th that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK is coming, and the NHS of the British public health service is under great pressure due to the pandemic, and said that “the next few weeks” will be the “worst weeks” of the pandemic.
Chris Whitty said that there is currently an average of one infected person in 50 people across England, while in the capital London, about one in 30 people are infected with the novel coronavirus.
In addition, compared with the previous period, the number of patients aged 30 to 40 admitted to the intensive care unit of several hospitals in the United Kingdom has increased.
At the University Hospital in Croydon, England, Hanifa, a 42-year-old patient, said that contracting the novel coronavirus made her very desperate.
Hanifa: I feel like I’m dying. I’ve been healthy, I’m not sick, nothing, and COVID-19 knocks me down.
ICU Consultant at Croydon University Hospital Steven: These patients between the ages of 30 and 40 in the intensive care unit, we can’t guarantee that they will be cured.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom has exceeded 3 million, and the cumulative death toll has exceeded 81,000.Recently, London Mayor Sadik Khan warned that if the British government does not take urgent action to slow the spread of the virus, the NHS will be overburdened and more people will die.
At present, the British government pins its hopes of getting rid of the pandemic on mass vaccination.
However, Chris Whitty, the chief medical adviser of the British government, stressed that vaccination will take “weeks” to be effective, and the public still needs to comply with pandemic prevention regulations to minimize unnecessary exposure.
