It’s thought that Plan B restrictions – or at least some of them – could come to an end by the end of January.
Announcing the changes, Boris Johnson said: ‘As always we must stress with a new variant there are many things that we just cannot know at this early stage.
‘It has become increasingly clear that Omicron is growing much faster than the previous Delta variant and is spreading rapidly all around the world. ‘Most worryingly, there is evidence that the doubling time of Omicron could currently be between two and three days.’ ‘As a result it might in part reduces the protection of our vaccines over time so we need to take targeted and proportionate measures now as a precaution while we find out more and first we need to slow down the seeding of this variant in our country.
It is worth noting that Plan B restrictions only apply to England. The rest of the UK dictate their own coronavirus rules and safety measures.
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