Coronavirus: Johnson, second wave of inevitable contagions

(ANSA) - LONDON, SEPTEMBER 18 - A second wave of coronavirus infections in the United Kingdom now appears "inevitable" and is already underway in other countries. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this today while visiting a vaccine research center in Oxford on the day his government announced joining the Covax global cooperation program. "Obviously we are closely following the acceleration of the pandemic with the developments in recent days, and there is no doubt, as I warned several weeks ago, that we can expect a second wave on the way," Johnson said of the background to the index update. infection in the Kingdom between 1.1 and 1.4. A wave "that we already see in France, Spain and elsewhere in Europe and which - I fear - it is absolutely inevitable that we will also see this country", he concluded. (HANDLE).