London, Thanasis Gavos
The pressure on British hospitals due to increased coronary heart disease “will be significant over the next two weeks and possibly longer,” warned Boris Johnson.
He left open the possibility of NHS health workers being relocated to areas where there is a shortage of staff due to illness to fill gaps.
Visiting a vaccination center in Buckinghamshire, the British Prime Minister called on citizens to take diagnostic tests before meeting with people they do not meet, as well as to use this week’s 2 million available appointments for the booster dose to “help everyone get vaccinated” vital ”effort to stem the pandemic and alleviate the pressure on hospitals.
At the same time, he stressed that Omicron, which has now prevailed in the United Kingdom, is milder, but has not brought an end to the pandemic. “As incredibly contagious as Omicron is – and there is no doubt that it is spreading too fast – it is different. “It puts fewer people in intensive care units and unfortunately the people who are admitted to the ICU are those who have not taken the booster dose,” Mr Johnson said.
He continued: “My view is that all the evidence shows that Omicron is much milder, significantly milder than previous variants and we are much more vaccinated, so our position is much better. But I think I would like to say this to everyone: it would be utter nonsense to say that this thing is over. We have to be careful, we have to stay with the measures in plan B and we have to do the boosting dose “.
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