New Delhi: The vaccine experts of the United Kingdom on Saturday alert the people for the third wave of coronavirus. On Saturday, the vaccine expert said, “The third wave of COVID-19 is ‘definitely’ underway in the United Kingdom (UK).”
The UK reports 10,000 coronavirus cases for the consecutive third day on Saturday.
Professor Adam Finn – advisor of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said that “It’s going up, perhaps we can be a little bit optimistic it’s not going up any faster, but it’s going up, so this third wave is underway.”
According to Adam Finn – the race is firmly on between the COVID-19 vaccine program, particularly getting older people’s second doses done, and the Delta variant (first found in India) third wave.
On the third wave of coronavirus and the vaccination drive in the UK – Finn said that “No, I don’t feel confident, but I think there are some grounds for optimism. The latest ONS [Office for National Statistics] figures continue to show a rise, but that rise has not accelerated quite as much as I’d feared over the last week.”
“That’s the critical thing, that’s what’s grounded us all in the past, and if we’ve managed to protect enough older people that we can avoid a great big surge of hospitalizations and deaths, then things will be able to move back towards normal,” he added.
On June 18, the Public Health England’s (PHE) weekly COVID-19 variant cases data showed that the numbers of the Delta variant in the UK have risen by 33,630 since last week to a total of 75,953.
Meanwhile, the official UK data on Saturday showed that there were 10,321 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the overall weekly count to 63,764. It also recorded 14 new coronavirus-related deaths and has seen 74 in the last 7 days.