No new Covid curbs in England a lifeline, pubs say
Pubs, bars and restaurants have been hard hit in the run-up to Christmas, due to mass cancellations over Omicron variant fears.
"It will be a welcome boost and keeping restrictions to a minimum and lifting the remaining restrictions as quickly as possible to help the beleaguered sector back on to the road to recovery." Prof Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University said he thought the decision not to introduce new curbs before the new year was "probably fine", with data showing "very low" numbers of vaccinated people in intensive care.
Sir John said that the stress on the heath service was coming from people quarantining after coming into contact with coronavirus and said that he thought lateral flow tests were "quite a good way" of showing who was infectious and who was not - rather than cutting isolation periodsConservative MPs - who recently inflicted the largest rebellion of Mr Johnson's premiership over the introduction of Covid passes - were among those who welcomed Monday's announcement.
And Prof Danny Altmann suggested that there was now a great divergence between scientific advice and legislation.Vaccines and boosters are still essential and do a great job at protecting against severe disease
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