{"id":151317,"date":"2020-09-10T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/boris-johnson-hopes-to-save-christmas-but-uks-chief-doctor-not-so-sure\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:20:24","slug":"boris-johnson-hopes-to-save-christmas-but-uks-chief-doctor-not-so-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/boris-johnson-hopes-to-save-christmas-but-uks-chief-doctor-not-so-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson hopes to save Christmas but UKs chief doctor not so sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Boris Johnson wants to save Christmas through mass testing \u2014 but his advisers are bracing for a long winter.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. prime minister said Wednesday that new \u201csimple, quick and scalable\u201d tests involving saliva swabs and turning out results in just 20 minutes should become available \u201csoon\u201d and could be a game-changer, allowing those testing negative not to socially distance.<\/p>\n<p>The government aims to pilot this approach in indoor and outdoor venues in Salford, northwest England from next month, he said, adding that this could allow the U.K. \u201cto have life much closer to normal by Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Englands top doctor, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, struck a more somber tone at a joint press conference with the prime minister Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe period between now and spring is going to be difficult because this is a respiratory virus,\u201d Whitty said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTheres also the fear in some parts of government that the U.K. is bracing for six tough months if there is no breakthrough in therapeutics or vaccines.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that the U.K.s trajectory of positive cases is \u201cextremely similar\u201d to that of France and Spain \u2014 two of the Western European countries most affected by the second wave of COVID-19 cases \u2014 but lags four weeks behind.<\/p>\n<p>People are testing positive for the coronavirus \u201cacross the whole country,\u201d and the uptick in cases is not just a result of more testing, he added, urging for strong action now.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday morning, there had been a further 2,659 lab-confirmed tests of coronavirus in the U.K., according to government figures.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Belgium, Whitty said, \u201cThis is a clear indication that if you act rapidly and decisively when these changes are happening, there is a reasonable chance or a good chance of bringing the rates back down under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Scientific Advisory Committee for Emergencies (SAGE), which Whitty co-chairs, has previously raised doubts about the viability of mass testing for enabling audiences to return to live events in the way set out by Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/914931\/s0712-tfms-consensus-statement-sage.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">produced on August 31<\/a>, SAGE pointed out that although this type of test \u201ccould play a role in allowing the resumption of such activities,\u201d it \u201cwould require superb organisation and logistics with rapid, highly sensitive tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Theres also the fear in some parts of government that the U.K. is bracing for six tough months if there is no<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/boris-johnson-tries-to-save-uk-christmas-against-all-coronavirus-odds\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Boris Johnson wants to save Christ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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