Dr Hilary Jones told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that the UK Government is putting too much faith into solely relying on their coronavirus vaccine programme. The GMB Health Editor added that he expected 50,000 new Covid cases in the coming days across Britain.
Dr Hilary said: “Masks are one thing, social distancing is another thing, vaccination is a third thing.
“We are putting far too much faith in vaccination.
“Everyone is saying it has been a wonderful thing and it has, it has weakened the link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths substantially.
“We would have been in a great position if we were only dealing with the alpha variant.
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“But we are dealing with the delta variant which is much more transmissible.
“We are going to have 50,000 cases probably in another few days, 50,000 cases.”
He continued: “There are going to be more variants, the more cases we have, we have a factory, a breeding ground for another variant.”
On Monday evening Boris Johnson outlined the UK’s Government move to release a number of restrictions on July 19.
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Mr Johnson said: “I want to set out what our lives would be like from the 19th of this month – which is only a few days away – if and when we move to step 4 – a decision we will finally take on the 12th – and I want to stress from the outset that this pandemic is far from over and it will certainly not be over by 19th.
“As we predicted in the roadmap we’re seeing cases rise fairly rapidly – and there could be 50,000 cases detected per day by the 19th and again as we predicted, we’re seeing rising hospital admissions and we must reconcile ourselves sadly to more deaths from Covid.
“In these circumstances we must take a careful and a balanced decision.
“And there is only one reason why we can contemplate going ahead to step 4 – in circumstances where we’d normally be locking down further – and that’s because of the continuing effectiveness of the vaccine roll-out.
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“When we paused step 4 a few weeks ago, we had two reasons. First, we wanted to get more jabs into people’s arms – and we have, with over 45 million adults now having received a first dose and 33 million a second.
“That is a higher proportion of the adult population of any European country except Malta, and our expectation remains that by July 19 every adult will have had the chance to receive a first dose and two thirds will have received their second dose.
“And second, we wanted a bit more time to see the evidence that our vaccines have helped to break the link between disease and death.
“And as the days have gone by it has grown ever clearer that these vaccines are indeed successful with the majority of those admitted to hospital unvaccinated.”
Source: Daily Express
