🔴 New work-from-home guidance and vaccine passports could be announced as early as today.
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⚠️A SAGE member has warned that a full UK-wide lockdown to deal with the threat of the omicron variant cannot be ruled out, although the current threat posed by the strain remains unclear
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🔴New Covid restrictions to clamp down on the spread of the omicron variant could cost the UK economy £4 billion a month and see taxpayers foot the bill for more emergency support, a think tank has warned
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➡️Work-from-home guidance could apply from as early as Thursday, meaning millions of workers in England will be encouraged not to come into workplaces if possible.
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🔴Boris Johnson has said the cabinet would be consulted before new coronavirus restrictions are imposed in response to rising cases and the spread of the Omicron variant
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🔴NEW: Press conference on Covid set for 6pm
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🔴Boris Johnson will host a press conference in Downing Street at 6pm in which he is expected to set out new coronavirus restrictions.
The Government is considering moving to Plan B in the face of rising omicron infections
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🔴Boris Johnson has announced a return to work from home guidance.
He said: "We will reintroduce guidance to work from home - from Monday work from home if you can, go to work if you must but work from home if you can"
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🔴From Friday facemasks must be warn in most public indoor venues, Boris Johnson has announced.
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🔴Boris Johnson said that the NHS Covid pass would be mandatory for nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather.
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Johnson sets out criteria to monitor measures:
❌Efficacy of our vaccines and boosters
❌Severity of omicron
❌Speed of omicron spread
❌Rate of hospitalisations
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🔴Boris Johnson has said that "we can't yet assume that omicron is less severe than previous variants"
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🔴Boris Johnson said: "I don't believe we can keep going indefinitely with non-pharmaceutical interventions - restrictions on people's way of life - just because a substantial percentage of the population, sadly, has not got vaccinated"
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🔴Professor Chris Whitty said there was some data suggesting "around about a 300% increase in hospitalisations over the last week"
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🔴Boris Johnson has dismissed the prospect of introducing mandatory vaccinations.
He also dismissed making changes to the rules that currently require people travelling from red list countries to quarantine in hotels
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🔴The Prime Minister said the 'sudden emergence' of omicron is the reason for Plan B
"Given the potential numbers that omicron might produce we just have to respond today in the way that we are"
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Boris Johnson has urged people to carry on with Christmas parties, but suggested people to take a Covid test before attending.
He told @Telegraph's Political Editor: "We think it's okay, on what we can currently see, to keep going with Christmas parties"
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🔴Measures will be reviewed no later than early January, Boris Johnson has said
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🔴Boris Johnson announced that daily testing would be introduced instead of isolation for those who come into contact with infected people
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🔴The PM has issued new guidance calling for Britons to "work from home" where possible.
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