UK Coronavirus Risk Management Strategy and Risk Analysis
UK Coronavirus Risk Management Strategy and Risk Analysis
Either By Design Or By Default England Has Ditched The National Lockdown Policy
The economic need to release the country from lockdown has resulted in majority of businesses being opened in recent weeks or coming couple of weeks. The UK as a whole is effectively moving towards this risk management strategy has new infections have continued to fall. It is a sensible political and economic choice.
Many parts of the UK are relatively untouched by the virus in terms of infection but the whole country has been devastated economically by the virus. This could never continue. The decision had to be made as to when to reopen the UK for business and effectively abandon the national lockdown policy.
The inevitable local spikes in infections will be tackled by local lockdowns as Leicester has already experienced. It means that where people take responsibility to control the spread of the virus they are not held back in parts of the country less compliant with good social distancing and cleanliness. This local lockdown policy applies to individual businesses as well as individual villages towns and whole cities.
Effectively this is how we will live now and potentially forever should there be no vaccine! The cautious suggestion that a vaccine will be found within the next 12 months means that lifelong local lockdown is unlikely but local lockdowns will be a feature for many more months at least.