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Image source, Dyah Mustikaning Pitha Prawesti
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Dyah Mustikaning Pitha Prawesti, works at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.
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Indonesian health workers were among the first to receive a mass Covid-19 vaccination in the UK, amid a large spike in cases that doctors and health officials have called a “tsunami” and “the most dangerous phase.”
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Three Indonesian health workers who work at different hospitals in London will receive a second dose of Pfizer vaccine around the second week of January, to ensure full immunization.
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The trio said they were “relieved” to get this vaccination and to be able to deal with the patients calmly, without worrying about infecting them.
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Dyah Mustikaning Pitha Prawesti, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology, who works at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, hopes, “I will be safer for vulnerable patients such as pregnant women, cancer patients and other vulnerable patients.”
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Pitha also expressed hope that vaccination could be accelerated because “the number of patients being treated was greater than the first batch … and a third of patients in the labor unit were positive for Covid.”
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Meanwhile, Anas Alamudi, who works in the emergency department of the King’s College hospital, hopes that the vaccination he receives reduces the risk of transmission to children. “I take vaccinations to protect children.” Last year, said Anas, he did not see his son for three months.
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For Ardito Widjono, a doctor in the emergency unit of Barnet hospital, north London, the severity of the second wave of Covid-19 can be seen from the overwhelming number of hospitals.
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“In the emergency room, I was so busy that ambulances were queuing to come in every night. I was forced to check the patients behind the ambulance because it was so full,” said Ardito.
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“Patients don’t seem as careful at the first peak. When the contagion was high with a new variant, someone told me they went to a Christmas party, a New Year’s party, secretly. It seems they don’t understand how bad the second wave is,” he said. he added.
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“Tsunami” and “Most dangerous phase”
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Between the first dose and the second dose is 21 days, before getting full immunity.
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Professor Hugh Montgomery, a doctor in intensive care at University College London Hospital, told the BBC that the emergency team in Britain was facing what he called a “tsunami” of coronavirus cases because of a surge in positive cases.
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Montgomery said many people were violating quarantine, ignoring health protocols, including not wearing masks and keeping their distance.
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He called people who ignored these health protocols “bleeding hands”, because they were responsible for the spread.
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The increase in daily cases in the UK reached more than 53,000 cases on (29/12), with hospital occupancy rates also soaring.
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Image source, Anas Alamudi
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Anas Alamudi said he was vaccinated to protect children from getting infected.
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UK hospitals currently treat more than 20,400 patients, according to UK Health Services (NHS) data. The number is higher than 19,000 patients at the first peak April last year.
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Government advisers from Britain’s science agency warned that lockdowns needed to be tightened to prevent a “disaster.”
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Image source, Getty Images
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Britain’s NHS chairman, Simon Stevens, said more than 200,000 severe Covid-19 patients treated in 2020.
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The spike in the spread of this new variant of the coronavirus suggests Britain is entering “a new stage of a very dangerous pandemic,” according to Prof Andrew Hayward, a member of the government’s advisory body on viral respiratory diseases. New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).
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Hayward told BBC Radio 4’s Today Program, “We need to take decisive first steps, national steps to prevent disasters in January and February.”
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Image source, Pitha Prawesti
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The UK’s mass vaccination has begun amid a huge spike in positive cases.
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The first two months of the year are the peak of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Meanwhile NHS UK chairman Simon Stevens said it was under these conditions that medics were “back in the middle of a storm”.
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The number of people who have been vaccinated so far is more than 600,000 since it was launched in early December.
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He said for health workers, 2020 was the “toughest year” with 200,000 severe Covid-19 patients being treated.
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The “50% increase in transmission of the new variant means the restrictions that were implemented before and are successful, will not work now, so limiting level 4 is necessary or higher,” he added.
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Since 20 December, London and parts of England have been restricted to category 4 (tier 4) or the highest.
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Through this restriction, residents are not allowed to travel, except for very special purposes.
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The restrictions were implemented following the discovery of a new variant of the corona virus with a spread rate of 70% faster than the known corona virus so far.
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The threat of the third wave of Covid-19
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Indonesian doctors in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic: ‘We are frustrated, but also proud’
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Since being detected in the UK, this new variant has also been found in at least 20 other countries, including most of Europe, as well as in Asia, Japan and South Korea. In many countries, this new variant has been detected in those who have recently returned from the UK.
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A new variant was also found in the United States in youth aged 20 years, but this young man is said to have not traveled.
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Data from the UK Ministry of Health shows that since the vaccination was launched in early December, only about 600,000 people have been vaccinated.
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To prevent the third wave of Covid-19, the UK needs to increase vaccinations to two million times a week
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This warning is listed in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine scientific article distributed with the government’s science advisory body, Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
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British health regulators Wednesday (30/12) agreed on a vaccine made by the University of Oxford in collaboration with AstraZaneca.
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The UK government has ordered 100 million doses of AstraZeneca so that they can be used to vaccinate 50 million people.
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British Health Minister, Matt Hancock, told the BBC the vaccine will begin distribution on Monday (04/01).
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“We have enough of this vaccine to vaccinate the entire population — 100 million doses. Add that to 30 million doses of Pfizer and that’s enough for the entire population to receive two doses of each,” said Hancock.
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