by Lightning McQueen » Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:31 pm
Boris Johnson has pretty much stripped all covid rules:
Boris Johnson scraps face masks, vaccine passports and work from home
Boris Johnson has announced the UK’s “Plan B” Covid-19 restrictions will be completely shredded as he hailed “light at the end of the tunnel”.
Boris Johnson has announced the UK’s “Plan B” Covid-19 restrictions will be completely shredded.
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Boris Johnson has announced the UK’s “Plan B” Covid-19 restrictions will be completely shredded next Wednesday as he hailed “light at the end of the tunnel”.
Hated vaccine passports will be dumped along with requirement to wear face masks anywhere indoors, The Sun reports.
The guidance to work from home has been dropped effective immediately — meaning Brits can go back to the office tomorrow.
The remaining rules will expire on January 26, meaning the changes will kick in on Thursday morning.
“The Cabinet concluded that because of the extraordinary booster campaign, together with the way the public have responded to the Plan B measures, we can return to Plan A in England, and allow Plan B regulations to expire,” the UK Prime Minister said.
In major developments:
• The PM endured a bruising PMQs as a Tory MP defected to Labour
• Masks will be dropped in classrooms tomorrow as revealed by The Sun
• Self-isolation rules should expire on March 24, the PM said
• Mr Johnson said that Omicron has now “peaked nationally”
• BoJo warned boosters will be increasingly needed for international travel
• The PM resisted pressure to scrap mandatory vaccination for NHS staff
Triumphant Mr Johnson hailed the success of the booster campaign that has allowed him to rip up nearly all remaining curbs.
Mr Johnson also felt vindicated for resisting doomster calls to impose tougher measures as Omicron surged over Christmas.
“Many nations across Europe have endured further winter lockdowns,” the PM told MPs.
“While we must continue to remain cautious, the data are showing that time and again, this government, got the toughest decisions, right.”
He pointed to falling Covid-19 cases as experts grow increasingly confident the country is over the hump of Omicron.
While “significant pressures on the NHS” persist, the PM said hospitalisations have now stabilised and are even falling in London.
But embattled Mr Johnson is also widely seen as dropping Plan B to soothe lockdown-hating rebels threatening to blow apart his premiership.
Yet the PM denied this and in rallying cry cheered, “Confronted by the nation’s biggest challenge since the Second World War and the worst pandemic since 1918, any government would get some things wrong. But this government got the big things right.”
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