[sagher]

Strange conditions in Pakistan and India. as last month sever passengers came from UK and COVID-19 Positive reported and one of them has COV SARS-2 second stage virus detected. and bitter truth is that whole nation thrown back all SOPs and even not ware mask. each and everything going normal. death rate increased day by day.

[tryp4vps]

...... and bitter truth is that whole nation thrown back all SOPs and even not ware mask. each and everything going normal. death rate increased day by day.

Look like more and more people in the world are already tired of wearing masks.

Now I would worry the situation is not going to get better, as more vaccines becoming available, more people will feel "safe" to take off their masks. And that can be very dangerous.

[hamed]

Yes . Unfortunately this is confirmed in my country. A new type of virus is made (not to human beings) (mutated), worse than the previous type of virus. You can see this issue in Internet rating news agencies

[tiwil]

..., as more vaccines becoming available, more people will feel "safe" to take off their masks. And that can be very dangerous.

This really is the new problem. Many think that when they receive the vaccine then they're safe and not going to caught COVID-19 anymore. And it's false since your body still can caught COVID-19 and get sick. But with the vaccine, we're hoping that the severe cases will be lower so hospital can take care one who cannot get vaccine but infected.

[sagher]

COVID-19 new generation is too fast to kill infected peoples even when the symptoms appears the patient is just one to two days far to die. seen many cases personally. just 2 to 3 days and patient loss there lives.
May ALLAH protect all of us and our love ones from this pandemic.

[tryp4vps]

......But with the vaccine, we're hoping that the severe cases will be lower so hospital can take care one who cannot get vaccine but infected.

Good point. But I am just afraid that if more and more people are not going to wear masks, the number of infected cases will still remain high.

Then it is hard to expect that hospitals will have rooms to take care of those get infected before they can take any vaccine.

[deanhills]

Note: the discussion on vaccines that were posted after the above comment has been moved to its own topic:
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The topic of this thread is about the new UK variant of Covid 19. Please be careful (obviously this applies to me most of all) not to go off the topic of this discussion.  And please make sure that the post contains quality information that makes a genuine contribution to the topic of the discussion, otherwise the post will have to be deleted.

[fChk]

Putting things in context is needed here!

What would be your opinion on it?

That's pretty much expected -if one knows what a retrovirus is and- given the still ongoing state of a pandemic inside the Human population worldwide.

A retrovirus is highly mutable, the more hosts they infect the more mutations it will acquire; the beneficial mutations will help it expand and thrive while the bad ones will weaken it and perhaps kill it in the long run. That's what it means to be a VIRUS after all!...

Thus, for as long as there is no herd immunity at a GLOBAL LEVEL, you'll be hearing about new variants here and there across the globe. The UK one that the OP is referring to is just one among MANY that was detected back in Sept. but wasn't widely publicized till people on the ground noticed that it's spreading at a much faster infection rate, hence the general alarm.

Variants popping up here and there is NORMAL and the risk that some of them may acquire more virulence than the initial(/ancestral) 'strain' is real hence the importance of developing a vaccine that will help shore up the immune defences of a substantial portion of the Human population across the globe thus limiting the ever expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus till its complete eradication (which will take years, if ever!). This is why Herd Immunity is key/important.