Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Friday it had begun deploying military personnel to support hospitals that are understaffed and strained due to the registration of Covid-19 cases in the country.
The government said 200 military personnel have been deployed to support the National Health Service in London over the next three weeks.
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Filling is done at the same time as The country is facing sharp increases in the number of infections. Britain’s health safety agency said the transmission rate of coronavirus in England rose this week in England and ranged between 1.2 and 1.5.
In practice, this means that Every 100 infected people transmit the virus to 120 or 150 others – Consider the margin of error in the statistics.
This is the first time since December 23 that a number has been released. In the last measurement, before the Christmas season, the “R” index was between 1.0 and 1.2.
Denoted by “R”, the “infection rate” is a number that translates the probability of spreading the disease: when it is greater than 1, each infected person transmits the disease to more than one person and the disease progresses. When it is smaller, it retracts.
The UK is experiencing an outbreak of coronavirus cases due to the omicron variant, and has been reporting more than 150,000 new cases each day for the past week.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said England could withstand the outbreak without further restrictions thanks to vaccination and a lower variable severity, but he warned of a difficult few weeks.
Military also in vaccines
The government has also deployed the armed forces to assist with Covid-19 testing and vaccination programmes.
“Once again, they are stepping up to assist NHS workers who are working 24 hours a day across the capital, assisting health services in the difficult winter period where it is most needed,” Health Minister Sajid Javid said.
The UK has reported nearly 150,000 deaths from Covid-19, and two years into the pandemic, the government health service was already facing an ethical and personnel crisis even before the latest micron outbreak, according to a parliamentary report published on Thursday.
Chand Nagpol, chair of the British Medical Association Council, said there were unprecedented levels of shortages of NHS staff.
“Although the government has turned to the army for help in London, let’s not forget that we have a national problem right now,” Nagpol told Sky News. This is a national problem and we have never experienced this level of understaffing before.”
