BORIS Johnson today ruled OUT another lockdown for now – with no shutting businesses or schools over omicron.
The PM insisted that he will recommend to Cabinet tomorrow the nation should retain Plan B measures of masks, working from home and Covid passes.
But he warned that nine million people who are eligible still haven’t come forward for their jabs.
At tonight’s Downing Street New Year press conference he said: “We have a chance to ride out this omicron wave without shutting down our businesses once again
“We can keep sour schools and businesses open and find a way to live with this virus.”
In other news at tonight’s press conference:
- The PM said will become “the norm” for people to need three jabs to travel to other countries quarantine-free
- Footie fans and nightclubbers may soon need three jabs to be able to use a Covid passport
- Chris Whitty warned that one in 25 people in England now have Covid – and that figure is set to go up
- But a booster jab gives a person 88 per cent protection against hospitalisation
