Quite a few numbers of young people with coronavirus are being admitted to hospitals including to intensive care wards, doctors have said and begging them not to “suffer unnecessarily” and to get the vaccine.
- During the first weekend after the majority of Covid restrictions were lifted in England there were pictures of crowded nightclubs, filled with revelers not wearing masks or social distancing. Medics raised the alarm that unvaccinated young people urgently needed to protect themselves against infection to avoid serious illness.
- The UK has recorded 29,173 new cases on Sunday. NHS England said one-third of 18- to 29-year-olds had still not had at least one dose of the vaccine a figure that falls to one in 10 for the whole adult population.
- Dr. Samantha Batt-Rawden, the senior intensive care registrar, said the patients they were seeing were “getting younger and younger”. “The vast majority of those requiring intensive care are unvaccinated: some of them will die. It is heartbreaking for us as NHS staff to watch people suffer unnecessarily knowing that this almost certainly could have been prevented by the vaccine,” she added.
- Meanwhile, some countries have tightened border controls, with Malta barring entry to unvaccinated travelers and Germany bringing in stricter quarantine rules for people arriving from Spain and the Netherlands.
- In Greece, bars and restaurants can now only welcome vaccinated customers inside, a curb that Portugal introduced at the start of July. Indonesia’s government told small businesses and some shopping malls can reopen despite warnings that loosening curbs could spark another Covid wave.
Overall, more than half of the EU’s population has now been fully vaccinated, but there are significant differences between countries. And the fast rise in cases can even put the fully vaccinated at risk.
