Coronavirus: Disease Control

(asked on 5th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a threshold for the (a) r rate, (b) number of covid-19 related hospitalisations and (c) number of covid-19 related deaths at which the Government would introduce covid-19 restrictions after 19 July 2021.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 26th August 2021

There are no defined thresholds for the R-rate, COVID-19 hospitalisations or COVID-19 deaths to trigger changes in restrictions after 19 July 2021.

The data assessment for moving to each step of the roadmap was based on the following four tests: the vaccine deployment programme continuing successfully; evidence showing vaccines are sufficiently effective in reducing hospitalisations and deaths in those vaccinated; infection rates do not risk a surge in hospitalisations which would put unsustainable pressure on the National Health Service (NHS); and our assessment of the risks is not fundamentally changed by new Variants of Concern.

The Government will continue to monitor the data to ensure that there is no danger of the NHS facing unsustainable pressure.

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