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Professor Whitty says coronavirus hospitalisations are doubling about every three weeks and could hit ‘quite scary numbers’.Įngland’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam added the uncertainty would be ‘driven by human behaviour over the next four to six weeks’. However, Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty has warned England could be plunged back into lockdown within five weeks if Covid-19 cases continue to surge.

Vallance said that 60% of people being admitted to hospital with coronavirus are unvaccinated, which suggests that the vaccines are in fact working. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web He said ‘most of the models are suggesting that there should be a peak and start seeing some sort of either plateau or decrease over August.’ Vallance explained that a rise in cases is expected as the vaccines are not 100% effective, and so it is ‘inevitable that 10% of that very large number remain at risk, and therefore will be amongst the people who both catch the infection and end up in hospital.’ Sir Patrick Vallance added: ‘The rates should be lower than they have been previously because of the protective effects of vaccination.’ Speaking at a press conference on Monday while in self-isolation, Mr Johnson said: ‘There comes a point after so many have been vaccinated, when further restrictions no longer prevent hospitalisations and deaths but delay the inevitable, we have to ask ourselves if not now, when?’ Mr Johnson explained: ‘On the irreversibility point, obviously if we do find another variant that doesn’t respond to the vaccines, if heaven forbid, some really awful new bug should appear, then clearly we will have to take whatever steps we need to do to protect the public.’ĭespite Covid-19 cases being almost as high as the nation’s second wave, he reiterated that it is the right time to lift restrictions. Boris Johnson held a press conference while in self-isolation for Covid (Picture: Alberto Pezzali – WPA Pool/Getty Images)