London Britain’s Health Minister said on Monday there’s now community transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across regions of England but it’s too early to say if this will” knock us off our road to recovery”.
Defending the preface of stricter rules to decelerate the spread of the contagion, Sajid Javid told congress the government was” leaving nothing to chance”while scientists assessed the variant, which was first reported in South Africa last month.
Javid said there are now 261 Omicron cases in England, 71 in Scotland and four in Wales-a aggregate of 336 This includes cases with no links to transnational trip, so we can conclude there’s now community transmission across multiple regions of England,”Javid said.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday no farther restrictions were presently demanded to deal with the Omicron variant, but refused to rule out assessing similar measures before Christmas Britain has blazoned all inbound trippers will need to take apre-departure COVID-19 test while advents from Nigeria, South Africa and nine other African countries will have to counterblockade in hospices to decelerate the spread of the new variant.
The number of hostel apartments available for transnational counterblockade will be doubled this week and the government is”ramping up this capacity as snappily as possible”, Javid said.
Javid said that at this stage the government can not” say for certain”whether or not Omicron will escape COVID vaccines, or if it causes a more severe illness CommentaryExcept for the caption, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a distributed feed.)