“The government should not only announce that we are going to plan B, but it should be Plan B Plus,” said Matthew Taylor, head of the National Health Service Confederation, according to the Guardian.
Plan B, presented by the government a few weeks ago, provides for the reintroduction of the mask requirement indoors and the advice to work from home. In addition, vaccination certificates could be introduced at larger events. The plan A that has been pursued so far is to rely solely on the effectiveness of the vaccinations. Almost 79 percent of citizens aged twelve and over who are eligible for vaccination are fully immunized.
“We’re on the knife edge – and it’s mid-October. We’d need a lot of luck not to find ourselves in a serious crisis for the next three months, “said Taylor. In addition to the Plan B measures, citizens should be called upon to avoid risky behavior with regard to Corona as far as possible. Economy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng ruled out another corona lockdown on Sky News on Wednesday morning. The government has so far not been of the opinion that it is “time for plan B”, he added in a BBC interview.
The number of daily corona deaths in the UK rose to 223 cases on Tuesday, its highest level since March. At the beginning of the week, almost 50,000 new corona cases were reported in the country. The seven-day incidence was last at 435. In England, a mask requirement indoors or proof of vaccinations or tests have been the exception since “Freedom Day” in July.