SAGE scientists are warning Covid restrictions could return to England within three weeks.
It is claimed hospitalisations have risen above the number the government's scientific advisers predicted and a further rise could see restrictions tightened less than three weeks after ‘Freedom day’
Restrictions could be back in place as early as the first week in August with SAGE advisers reportedly warning Boris Johnson the NHS could be overwhelmed again within weeks.
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Current modelling has suggested daily hospitilisations at the peak of the third wave - which is due at the end of August - could reach up to 2,000, and we could see the daily death toll rise to 200.
However data released on July 14th – the latest set of figures - has indicated it could be much worse than that with 745 admissions for Covid-19 recorded at hospitals in a single day.
These latest numbers indicate there could be up to 1,500 daily Covid hospital admissions by the first week in August and 3,000 by the end of the month which would be level with the figures we saw in the very first wave last spring.
On Tuesday there were 46,558 new coronavirus cases in the UK, while a further 96 people have died - the highest daily reported fatality rate since the middle of March.
One source reportedly told I News what was needed was “less of an emergency brake and more of a gear change” in readiness to keep the third wave “under control”.
The source also added bringing back face masks would be the ‘easiest measure to reimpose with the least resistance from the public.’
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