The government is not doing everything it should to stop a second wave of The intervention comes as Boris Johnson pointed the finger at Europe and said “swift” action was being taken to prevent localised outbreaks identified on the continent spreading back to the UK.Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA’s council, told MPs on Wednesday that confused messaging from the government and lack of a “systemic approach” on policies like mask wearing and social distancing was behind a weekly rise in infections.Warning that there were “too many examples of potential spread” he told a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on coronavirus: “At the moment we’re not doing everything we should in trying to contain the virus.“If I look even at something as simple as our messages on social distancing: we’re told that social distancing is still two metres, or one metre plus.“Do you think any member of the public understands what one metre plus means? Lifting quarantine was a risk and it could be foreseen it was a risk, but we were under pressure form the travel industry and it takes backbone to stand up to that,” he said.“It’s inevitable that UK cases will go up when you open, unless you are cautious.
Coronavirus is spreading in the UK and the government is seeking ways to minimise its spread. An additional 581 people also tested positive, slightly down on recent days. Hopefully the arrangements in place will enable those flare-ups to be suppressed, but if there are too many of them the capacity at a local level won’t be able to deal with them and they will emerge as a wave,” he said.“A second wave is unlikely, simply because an awful lot of older people and people with underlying conditions have lost a lot of trust in what the government says is or isn’t safe and they are going to be very cautious about where they go and what they do. "It is therefore hoped that closure of schools during the pandemic might break the chains of transmission" the researchers said.On Monday it was reported that St Mary's Independent School in Southampton was being closed after a child who had traveled to China developed symptoms of coronavirus. What the health and social care system across the UK has done to tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and what it plans to do next.This document sets out what the UK as a whole has done – and plans to do – to tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, based on our experience dealing with other infectious diseases and our influenza pandemic preparedness work.The exact response to coronavirus (COVID-19) will be tailored to the nature, scale and location of the threat in the UK, as our understanding of this develops.The current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which began in December 2019, presents a significant challenge for the entire world.
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