🔴 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
🔴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
💉 People who have previously had Covid or been vaccinated have far less protection against omicron than they do for other variants, according to the first data of its kind
🦠Scientists from South Africa grew live samples of the omicron variant and performed lab experiments to see if, and how, omicron was affected by antibodies in blood samples from 12 people who had been vaccinated.
Six of the people also had previously had Covid.
The study shows how many antibodies are needed in order to stop the virus from replicating and is an early indicator of how effective the worrying new variant is at avoiding our immune system
💼A paper published this week in the Journal of the Royal Economic Society suggests we are doing our best work while actually in the office
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♟️Researchers in the Netherlands examined 215,000 moves made by a group of world-class chess players, some of whom were playing digitally and others at in-person tournaments
💉On Monday night, there were accusations that the programme was “stuck in first gear” and fears that further restrictions could be introduced over Christmas unless the programme is accelerated
🦠Sajid Javid raised fears omicron may spread more quickly than its predecessors, saying it could “knock us off our road to recovery”.
You probably remember the days of Jamie Oliver highlighting the poor standards of food in school canteens.
🔴But if you think that, more than 15 years later, things are any better, you might be disappointed
📸Andy Butterton
🍟A recent report from Bite Back 2030 revealed that we are, as Oliver said, risking "a return to the beige days" of chips, cheap chicken and white bread