The number of Covid cases in the UK has SURGED by 22,961 yesterday after it was revealed that thousands of cases were not included and potentially lots of infections missed.
What has been described by some as a “technical glitch” has seen nearly 16,000 Covid-19 cases unreported, it has been described as “shambolic”.
It has now emerged that this delay could have prevented in potential infections.
The news comes as leaked Government proposals for a new three-tier lockdown system for England emerged in the news today. The proposals detail a traffic light-styled system with the highest alert level 3 including the closure of pubs, a ban on mixing households and restrictions on overnight stays.
There are now fears that we may be heading into a national two week circuit breaker lockdown in which pubs could be closed and all hospitality venues shut for this duration.
Paris is now placed on maximum Covid-19 alert, meaning bars will be forced to close for two weeks from tomorrow (Tues 6th October) and restaurants will have to put in sanitary protocols to stay open. It is largely feared that we may be about to experience this in the UK also.
The PM might impose a two-week long lockdown within a matter of days that could intergrate the October half-term as some schools have already started sending packs to teachers to prepare children for home education.
Speaking on the BBC’s Seven Days, Clinical director in Scotland Jason Leitch said: “You might make some choices in there about schools or about further education – but fundamentally a short, sharp shock to the R number.”
He then added: “So the idea is that a two-week, roughly, circuit-breaker, would buy you 28 days. You don’t know that for sure, because it’s not an exact science, but it would buy you about a month in the pandemic.”
It is possible that schools close a week earlier before the half term starts, or perhaps a week afterwards as we head into November.
