by Negin Nouri
As the pressure grows on Boris Johnson’s lockdown parties, scientists believe the pandemic is entering its end game in Europe.
The coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China, two years ago as something that our body’s defense mechanisms had never seen nor experienced before, and when we had zero knowledge of what could be used to treat it.
Professor Azra Ghani, an epidemiologist who studies the spread of disease from the Imperial College in London, says Europeans no longer need to restrict their lives and that the only worry is a new variant that can master omicron and cause more disease and deaths.
This week, the UK government has reported a mean of 938.2 cases per 100,000 population in the country, but since the outbreak, they have reported 16 million cases as of January 25.
In the UK, high-level infections have caused more than 150,000 deaths, but has also helped increase herd immunity, reducing the chances of becoming seriously ill.
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