The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on Wednesday, announced that he would end most of the anti-Covid-19 restrictions imposed on the country in the wake of the Omicron variant with effect from next week.
He added that the country would also provide for an end of isolation for positive cases in March.
Reports add that effective 27th of January, wearing of facemark will no longer be legally compulsory, telework will no longer be officially recommended and a health pass will no longer be imposed for access to public areas like night clubs and certain large gatherings.
According to the Prime Minister, “As Covid becomes endemic, we must replace legal obligations with advise and recommendations.”
He added that he does not intend to extend regulations imposing isolation for Covid-19 positive cases when they expire on the 24th of March.
“We don’t legally require people to self-isolate if they have the flu.”
More than 152,000 people have died in the UK from Covid-19. The latest available date shows an almost 40% from in number of new weekly cases while the number of hospitalised have stabilised .
The number of intensive care patients, which remained low during the Omicron wave, is also decreasing.
This relaxation of measures deemed draconian by part of the conservative majority comes sooner than expected, the anti-Covid system to be reviewed on January 26, and in a context of unprecedented crisis for Boris Johnson, mired in the holiday scandal. in Downing Street during the lockdowns.
In the UK, each organisation decides its health policy.
On Tuesday, the Scottish independence government announced the lifting, from next Monday, of most of the restrictions in place, allowing the reopening of nightclubs and removing the limit to three households for indoor meetings.
Typical reaction in the UK since the announcement:
Boris Johnson is a British politician and writer serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdomand Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019.
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