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8 Dec, 22 tweets, 11 min read
🔴 New work-from-home guidance and vaccine passports could be announced as early as today.

Follow the latest updates here 👇
⚠️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

Follow the latest news on our coronavirus liveblog 👇
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴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

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
➡️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.

Here's what the rest of the "Plan B" measures could mean 👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🔴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

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴NEW: Press conference on Covid set for 6pm

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴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

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Watch the Downing Street #Covid press conference live here 👇
🔴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"

Read more: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴From Friday facemasks must be warn in most public indoor venues, Boris Johnson has announced.

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴Boris Johnson said that the NHS Covid pass would be mandatory for nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather.

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Johnson sets out criteria to monitor measures:

❌Efficacy of our vaccines and boosters
❌Severity of omicron
❌Speed of omicron spread
❌Rate of hospitalisations

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴Boris Johnson has said that "we can't yet assume that omicron is less severe than previous variants"

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴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"

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴Professor Chris Whitty said there was some data suggesting "around about a 300% increase in hospitalisations over the last week"

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴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

Follow live updates: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴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"

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
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"

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴Measures will be reviewed no later than early January, Boris Johnson has said

Read more: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴Boris Johnson announced that daily testing would be introduced instead of isolation for those who come into contact with infected people

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🔴The PM has issued new guidance calling for Britons to "work from home" where possible.

Here are your rights when it comes to flexible working 👇
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💉 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

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🦠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

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7 Dec
♟️A new study of chess players has given an insight into how our minds function when we work remotely – and it's a significant downgrade.

🧠Here’s what working from home does to your brain

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💼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
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7 Dec
💉Based on current trajectories over 3 million people could miss out on a third Covid dose by the January 31 deadline.

Here’s why the UK risks missing its booster target 🧵👇

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/0…
With the new omicron strain already spreading within the community, the Government has pledged to put the booster campaign "on steroids"
Officials have already lowered the mandatory gap between second and third doses, and said that all adults will be offered a booster by January 31.

Analysis by @Telegraph suggests that the Government will miss this ambition by 3.1 million doses, based on current trajectories
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7 Dec
🇺🇸 Kamala Harris made history as the first woman, first Black American and first Asian-American to become vice president.

But after less than a year in the post, she is a historically unpopular vice president, according to The Telegraph's Washington Editor Rozina Sabur 👇
➡️Where Ms Harris was once always in the frame during Joe Biden's major addresses, she's been notably absent from the president's side of late.

“For now at least, it seems she is no longer Joe Biden's heir apparent,” says Rozina Sabur
💬“A number of Democrats seem prepared to challenge her for the nomination should Biden not seek re-election in 2024”
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7 Dec
🛑The booster jab rollout is at a standstill despite No 10 pledge to put it ‘on steroids’.

The number of 3rd jabs administered in England was lower last weekend than the one previous, when the PM called for the programme to be accelerated.

🧵⬇️
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💉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”.

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6 Dec
🎒Why is school food all so... beige?

Instead of relying on external companies, head teachers are hiring specialists to give pupils healthy meals

#Thread 👇

telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink…
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
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