Boris Johnson said continuing with booster vaccinations is the “way forward for the country as a whole” and urged people to “build up defences” by getting their booster dose......
According
to report, Boris Johnson is holding out on introducing further Covid measures.
The
pressure on the NHS for the “next couple of weeks and maybe more” is going to
be “considerable”, the Prime Minister has said but he said the plan is
unchanged.
Speaking
on a visit to a vaccination hub in the Guttman Centre at Stoke Mandeville
Stadium in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, he said the Omicron variant of
coronavirus is “plainly milder” than other strains.
But he
said “there’s no question Omicron continues to surge through the country”.
He added:
“I think we’ve got to recognise that the pressure on our NHS, on our hospitals,
is going to be considerable in the course of the next couple of weeks, and
maybe more.”
Mr Johnson
said the booster programme and Plan B measures made a difference.
He added:
“There are still quite a lot of people who have had two jabs, but haven’t had
the third. The third jab really does make a big, big difference.”
The Prime
Minister advised the public to take Covid tests “before meeting people you don’t
usually meet” and work from home if possible, as he insisted the current
measures were the right ones to manage transmission.
Mr Johnson
continued: “I think the way forward for the country as a whole is to continue
with the path that we’re on. We’ll will keep everything under review.
“The
mixture of things that we’re doing at the moment is, I think, the right one.
“So,
number one, continue with Plan B, make sure that people take it seriously, do
what we can to stop the spread, use the Plan B measures, work from home if you
can, wear a mask on public transport… take a test before going out to meet
people you don’t normally meet, think about the the requirements under Plan B,
but also get the boost.”
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