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The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not release new restrictions to stop Christmas celebrations this week. However, he asked Britons to caution amid the Omicron variant.
He also pledged to maintain the data under review. The next thing is Sadiq Khan reneged the capital’s New Year’s Eve celebration and the Queen will honour Christmas in Windsor, a source mentioned.
On Monday, Prime Minister had a session with the Cabinet and stated the Government needs to be more transparent about the rate of hospital access associated with Omicron. Also the significance of vaccines against it, before setting additional steps in England to stop the spread of the virus.
Mr Johnson also described the Government will “secure the possibility” of enforcing new restrictions and the Government wants people to focus on “exercising caution”.
The Welsh Government has declared sporting events will be played behind closed doors starting from Boxing Day. It needed to support prevent the spread of the new variant.
Mr Johnson counted: “Sadly, I must speak to people that we will have to secure the possibility of taking additional action to save the public, to guard public health, to defend our NHS.
“We are examining at all types of items to maintain Omicron under control and we will rule nothing out.
“I think we want people to focus on is exercising caution such as ventilation, masks in the right places, washing hands, but recognise how contagious Omicron really is.”
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