Will there be another lockdown in UK?
Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
Free at last; emerging from the gloom of a four-month COVID-19 lockdown, most Britons are now free to hug, albeit cautiously, visit their pub, sit down to an indoor meal or visit the cinema. As freedom beckons once more, there is excitement.
But beside the euphoria, there’s also anxiety in the form of the emergence of the Indian variant of Covid-19. I'm told that if it's only marginally more transmissible we can continue more or less as planned. But if the variant is significantly more transmissible, we're likely to face some hard choices.
Perhaps the toughest of those choices is yet another lockdown. Some scientists, among them the government Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty, have warned of a summer surge in cases.
Until now, around nearly 70 percent of Britons over the age of 18 have received the first dose of the Covid-19 jab with the government saying the country is in a race between the vaccination program and the virus.
So will there be another lockdown? The Prime Minister says he’s opposed to it. Last month he came under fire for allegedly saying ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’ after reluctantly approving a second England-wide lockdown late last year.
The UK's official death toll is nearly 128-thousand- Europe's highest figure and the world's fifth largest, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico. And the possible outbreak of the Indian variant is sure to upset the Johnson government’s roadmap out of lockdown.
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