The situation of Covid infections continues to worsen in the United Kingdom and the hypothesis of a new lockdown is emerging. The number of new cases is so high that there are fears for the health system to hold up. For this reason, among the hypotheses put forward by the British scientists there is also a period of lockdown, maybe two weeks after Christmas. The quarantine would be the only tool capable of curbing the impact of the variant Omicron on UK hospitals. Only on Friday the new cases were 93 thousand.
It is not excluded that the premier Boris Johnson reject this possibility, during the week the government majority split precisely because of the new anti Covid measures voted by the House of Commons.
The British authorities have introduced the obligation to wear masks on public transport and in shops, as well as a vaccination certificate or a swab to enter nightclubs or access public events.
But experts all this is not enough. To prevent hospital admissions from growing above the capacity of the Nhs more stringent measures are needed soon. But the hospitality sector, pubs, discos, hotels, already protest for the damage suffered due to the latest measures against Covid. They are calling on the UK government to restore aid previously offered to the sector and hope that a lockdown will not jeopardize the holidays. New Year’s.
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