Even though the Conservative leader said that educating children was a “priority”, he stressed that it was necessary to recognize “The impact of the new variant of the virus”. Each of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) decides on its strategy for the fight against the virus.
Already one million Britons vaccinated
Three quarters of the The population has so far been reconfigured and the start of the school year postponed for some students, especially in London and in the south-east of England, particularly affected by the rise in cases. In areas where schools are open, Boris Johnson encouraged parents to send their children there, stressing that they were “safe” there. “The risk for children and young people is very very low”, he assured.
From Monday, the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca group will be administered in the United Kingdom. In total 530. doses are available from Monday, and tens of millions of doses are expected by the end of March, with the UK having ordered a total of 74 millions of doses. More than a million people in the UK have already received a dose of the vaccine from the US-German alliance Pfizer / BioNtech, deployed since December 8. For both vaccines, two doses should be injected.