Scientists are pushing for tougher lockdown measures to stop Omicron causing record hospitalisations. Boris Johnson has been warned by SAGE experts that ‘Plan B’ restrictions do not go far enough in preventing the latests Covid-19 variant ravaging the NHS.
Instead scientists propose shutting down all crowded events and a return to pubs only serving punters outside. It is feared that the virus will infect 50,000 NHS doctors, nurses and more hospital staff by Christmas Day, forcing them off work and into isolation.
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