U.Okay. Parliament Passes Covid Restrictions Amid Omicron Surge

“Though we’ve seen plans for common obligatory vaccination in some international locations in Europe, I’ll by no means help them on this nation.” “Yea.” “I firmly consider that getting vaccinated is one thing that needs to be a constructive resolution, and I can guarantee the Home that the federal government has no intention of extending the situation of deployment to every other work forces or introducing obligatory vaccination extra broadly. Now that there’s group transmission of Omicron within the U.Okay. and Omicron has unfold so broadly internationally. The journey purple checklist is now much less efficient in slowing the incursion of Omicron from overseas, so I can announce at present that while we’ll preserve our non permanent testing measures for worldwide journey, we shall be eradicating all 11 international locations from the journey purple checklist efficient from 4 a.m. tomorrow morning. I do consider the accountable resolution to take due to all that is to maneuver to Plan B in England, drawing on the measures that we’ve held in contingency to provide extra time to get these boosters into arms. These aren’t steps that we might take frivolously. I firmly consider in particular person liberty and that the curbs needs to be positioned on our freedoms solely in probably the most gravest of circumstances. And never solely that, I’m in fact aware of the price that restrictions can carry to the nation’s well being, to our schooling, to the financial system.”