Virus surge tests Britain’s Covid strategy
For the last four months, Britain has run a grand epidemiological experiment, lifting virtually all coronavirus restrictions, even in the face of a high daily rate of infections.
- freewheel : (자전거를) 페달을 밟지 않고 달리다 -- freewheeling : 자유분방한
The rapid rollout of vaccines, leaders said, allowed the freewheeling approach to be safe.
But that theory is being put to the test. Cases, hospital admissions and deaths are up, and the effect of vaccines is beginning to wear off. More vaccinated people seem to be getting infected, a shift from a few weeks ago, when schoolchildren made up the bulk of cases.
- werar off : (차츰) 사라지다[없어지다]
“Everything is hitting us at once,” said Tim Spector, a genetic epidemiology professor at King’s College London. The sudden resurgence is a rude jolt for a country that believed it had put the worst of the pandemic behind it.
- resurgence : (활동의) 재기[부활]
Details: New cases surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, an 18 percent increase over the last week. The number of people admitted to hospitals rose 15.4 percent over the same period, reaching 959, while 115 people died of Covid-19, an increase of almost 11 percent.
Government response: Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “the numbers of infections are high but we are within the parameters of what the predictions were,” adding, “We are sticking with our plan.”
- stick with somebody/something : 1. ~의 곁에 머물다 2. ~을 계속하다