UK co-exists with Covid-19 for a month, death toll soars 36%, hospitalisations return to peak

On February 24, British Prime Minister Boris Boris announced that all existing new crown restrictions in England will be lifted and the first to "coexist with the new crown"
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 Living with Covid-19 long-term plan includes: People with Covid-19 are no longer legally required to self-isolate, but are advised to stay home and avoid contact with others for at least 5 days; no more contact tracing; workers do not need to tell employers if they need to self-isolate ; Most public places no longer need to wear masks,
etc.

 Three weeks ago, Mays reported, "The UK's new crown mortality rate fell to 0.
03%, lower than the flu, and it was the first to achieve "coexistence with the new crown"
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Due to the repeated infection of the new coronavirus, the mass vaccination of vaccines, and the characteristics of Omicron, the case fatality rate of the new crown in the UK fell to 0.
03% in early March, even lower than that of the flu
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In the first stage of "coexistence", the United Kingdom seems to have handed over a relatively satisfactory answer
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From April 1st, England will no longer provide free rapid antigen test kits to ordinary people
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Instead, make your own purchases from merchants that have been approved for supply testing
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 Taking the British chain store Boots as an example, the price of two antigen test kits is 3.
95 pounds, equivalent to about 16.
4 yuan per unit, which is slightly more expensive than the antigen test currently provided in China (required by the National Medical Insurance Administration of China, the new crown antigen The total inspection fee shall not exceed 15 yuan/person)
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 New crown antigen self-test kit provided by Boots in the United Kingdom As the first Western country to lift all epidemic prevention restrictions, what is the current situation in the United Kingdom one month after "coexisting with the new crown"? Is the UK data still optimistic in a month of coexistence with the new crown? According to BMJ's news on April 4, the data is not as optimistic as previously reported
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 After the implementation of the policy of "coexisting with the new crown", the United Kingdom ushered in another small peak of the epidemic
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In the week of March 20-26, a total of 4.
9 million people were infected in the UK, or 1 in 13 people, according to the Office for National Statistics
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 In addition, in the past month, the number of new crown patients admitted to England's hospitals has more than doubled, reaching a new high, and the number continues to rise
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 Weekly Covid-19 hospitalisations in the UK per unit: million NHS figures show the average daily number of Covid-19 hospitalisations in the seven days from March 21-27 was 2,008, up from the previous week (3 1,749 people from February 14-20); 2.
12 times that of a month ago (February 21-27)
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 Higher hospitalizations were also associated with changes in the prevalent strains
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At this stage, the main circulating strain in the United Kingdom is the Omicron BA.
2 subtype
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At present, the level of hospitalizations caused by this strain has approached the first wave of the outbreak caused by Omicron BA.
1 in early January this year, that is, the number of hospitalizations per week is about 14,000
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 Not only the number of hospitalizations, but the number of deaths caused by the new crown has also rebounded
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Also in the seven days to March 27, hospitals reported a total of 988 new crown deaths, a 36% increase from 725 deaths two weeks ago (March 7-13)
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 UK daily COVID-19 deaths/unit: million Given rising infection rates and hospitalisations, David Wrigley, vice-chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) committee, stressed that the UK government should reconsider "the April From the 1st, the decision to stop providing free antigen testing to most people"
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 Wrigley said that the current epidemic of the new crown in the UK is still high, the number of new crown infections is alarmingly high, and the number of hospitalizations and deaths is also rising
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"Antigen test is a simple and effective tool to help people detect whether they are infected
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Once antigen test is no longer free, it will be difficult for people to find out that they are infected with the new crown, and they do not know when they need to self-isolate.

In
this case, it is difficult to protect family members and the community
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" After "coexisting with the new crown", British medical care is facing enormous pressure
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In addition to the rise in hospitalisations, there has also been a rise in the number of NHS staff absent from work due to Covid-19
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The number of employees absent from work due to Covid-19 has increased by 86% in the three weeks since February 28
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The rise in the number of infected people hospitalized and the decline in the number of health care workers, the two opposite directions of growth, have dealt a major blow to health care
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 Source: Xinhuanet At the same time, the emergence of the new crown recombinant strain is another new test for the UK
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According to a report released by the UK Health Security Agency on April 1, 637 cases of XE strain infection have been reported in the UK so far, with the earliest sample date of January 19 this year
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Yesterday, Mays reported that there is data that the infection time of XE is significantly shorter, and its transmission speed may be 10% higher than that of the mainstream Omicron, which means that it may be more infectious than BA.
2! (For details, see: Medrxiv: The Strongest New Crown Omicron Variant Strain XE, how exactly are BA.
1 and BA.
2 recombined, and what are the mutations?) However, the current research on the XE variant is limited, and the Health Security Administration will also Continue to closely monitor the situation
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 Stephen Griffin, an expert in virology at the University of Leeds School of Medicine, believes that the British government's introduction of the "Coexistence with the New Crown" plan and the cancellation of prevention and control measures is tantamount to ignoring the continued rapid spread of the new coronavirus.

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As a result, Griffin urged the government "should re-establish public health measures and not put the public at their own risk"
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  Officially added 9 new symptoms of new crown or help to find infected people? As mentioned above, Wrigley believes that after the cancellation of free antigen testing, it seems that finding new crown infections has become a big problem
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Therefore, in order to allow people to find out that they are infected with the new crown earlier, the British official updated the list of Covid-19 symptoms
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 The nine new coronavirus symptoms on the NHS website include: shortness of breath, fatigue, body aches, headache, sore throat, stuffy or runny nose, loss of appetite, diarrhoea and feeling unwell or being sick
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The previous version had only 3 symptoms, which were fever, persistent cough, and loss/alteration of taste or smell
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 As stated on the NHS website, the latest version of the symptoms of Covid-19 is getting closer and closer to some other diseases, such as colds and flu
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 Source: Tim Spector, chief scientist of the Zeo new crown symptom tracking app on the NHS official website, said in an interview with BMJ, “We are very happy to see that the NHS has finally updated the official new crown symptom list
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Adding more symptoms is an official step forward .
It's the right step to help reduce infections
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" "However, we hope the NHS will adjust the order of symptoms, the current version overemphasizes fever and hyposmia
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" Later, these symptoms are not as common as before
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According to a survey by Zeo's new crown symptom tracking app, the five most common symptoms of new crown positive infections are runny nose (83%), fatigue (71%), sore throat (69%), headache (69%) and sneezing (68%)
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That is to say, the most common symptoms of Omicron at this stage are runny nose, followed by fatigue, sore throat, headache and sneezing, etc.
, rather than fever and loss or change of smell/taste
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These symptoms are also It is closer to influenza
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 This has certain guiding significance for our country
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With the widespread implementation of antigen testing in China and the update of symptoms caused by Omicron, it will help the public to recognize earlier when to test for antigens.
, increase the detection rate and detect the infected person earlier
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Reference [1]https:// 377/bmj.
o892[3]NHS.
Main symptoms of coronavirus (covid-19).
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