Also Read | The fear of flying at Mount 50K"The number of COVID-19 in-patients (in hospital) is extremely high at the moment, and we can't expect that to drop unless we can achieve lower levels of prevalence," said Steven Riley, a professor of infectious disease dynamics who co-led the work."The fact that (prevalence) is not going down has potentially serious consequences"Prime Minister Boris Johnson put England into a third national lockdown on Jan.
5, closing bars, restaurants and most schools, and allowing only essential shops to open.Ministers have appealed to people to stay at home as much as they can to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed and to give authorities time to roll out COVID-19 vaccines to the elderly and those at highest.