are to set be slapped with a £200 fine from their very first offence under new Covid police powers.According to reports from the Telegraph, this penalty will double with each offence, meaning it will be £400 the second time someone is caught, and £800 the third.
Fines will increase right up to a whopping £6,400 — although those who pay in the first two weeks will earn themselves a 50% reduction.The heavy-handed measures come after Boris Johnson unveiled sweeping changes to England's previously light-touch coronavirus rules on Saturday in light of the terrifying new Omicron variant, which has threatened to wreck Christmas plans and potentially send the country into a new lockdown.He confirmed that mask-wearing would again become a legal.
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