![]() The scientist urged the public to keep wearing face masks on public transport and inside buildings, describing it as a “very simple operation” that would help reduce the spread of the disease. “The disease is rising to another peak and this peak could be as serious as the last,” he told Sky News. The slowdown has been based on a number of factors – but the most significant appears to be that GPs, nurses and pharmacists, who administer the “bulk” of the booster jab programme, are also “having to deal with a major flu vaccine roll-out this autumn” as well as an “increase in demand for doctor’s appointments more generally”, said the BBC.įormer chief scientific adviser Sir David King has criticised the pace of the roll-out, describing it as moving “extremely slowly”, as he warned the UK could be facing an extremely serious spike in coronavirus cases over the winter. In September, the government’s scientific advisers recommended that everyone over 50, as well as medical staff and younger adults with medical conditions, should be offered a third dose of a Covid vaccine six months after their second vaccine dose. The poll comes amid accusations that the government roll-out for the booster vaccine is “moving too slowly to protect the most vulnerable”, with figures showing “that fewer than half of those eligible” have received the booster jab, reported The Telegraph.Īccording to estimates seen by the paper, “22 million people will be ready for their third dose by mid-December” but the slow pace of the programme means that “those most at risk will not be completed until the end of January”. Hopkins noted that the “small but significant proportion” – 19% – of the public who feels the worst is still ahead “shows that trust in the vaccine roll-out may still be undermined if the UK enters further restrictions during a winter that will be inevitably challenging for the NHS”. Covid toes: why some people are developing chilblain-like lesionsĬhris Hopkins, who carried out the survey for Savanta ComRes, said: “While it may feel to many that the UK is out of the woods with coronavirus, there is still an underlying feeling – or perhaps fear – among the public that there are more restrictions, including lockdowns, to come.”.Why does the UK have highest Covid case rate in western Europe?.Delta-plus: is new mutation most infectious Covid-19 strain yet?.Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. The data today suggests we live in a country that might not do that. It needs complete compliance from the country at large to work. It doesn’t need 50 per cent-plus support. The public might be annoyed and distrustful of politicians but it seems most would be prepared to go along with new restrictions.īut a lockdown isn’t a public policy designed to win a particular set of votes in a particular set of marginal seats. A recent poll by Savanta ComRes found majority support (albeit just 51 per cent) for a two-week lockdown starting in December. ![]() The vaccine roll-out is currently the only government measure to receive public approval, and to a lot of Brits, it has been regarded as this pandemic’s silver bullet: the passport to no further worry about anything Covid-related.īut whether this means the population will truant in the face of a new lockdown is yet to be seen. Here we have a country that, in my mind, has convinced itself of its invulnerability to coronavirus. ![]()
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