England lifted almost all coronavirus restrictions just as the highly transmissible delta variant was sending infection rates skyrocketing. But then cases declined. The UK's gamble could now provide a lesson to other countries.
. Some accused Johnson's Conservative Party of paying more attention to their libertarian beliefs than science.But the government held firm. And in mid-July, just as daily cases hit 60,000, they began to decline. More encouraging was data from Scotland, where infections not only began to fall a few weeks before England's, but were followed by a decline in hospitalizations, too.
This third wave for the U.K. has been nothing like its first two, which caused nearly 130,000 deaths and briefly . Whereas January's peak saw 80,000 daily cases and 1,300 daily deaths, July's peak of 60,000 daily cases brought no more than 78 deaths in one day.Both Scotland and England's decline followed their respective exits from Euro 2020. During the tournament, men were 30 percent more likely than women to test positive,. This, after weeks in which mostly male fans packed onto trains to travel to stadiums and crammed into pubs to watch games.
Driving cases down further, many experts believe, was a brief spell of fine weather, coupled by hundreds of thousands of children being off from school because of infections or symptoms, or being told to isolate because of close contact with people who had tested positive. The vaccine has been supplemented, too. The U.K. had two devastating waves in 2020, meaning that today, either by shot or illness, an estimated 90 percent of people have Covid-19 antibodies,
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