Facing an explosion in cases of the omicron coronavirus variant in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson significantly tightened the country’s health guidelines on Wednesday, mandating masks in indoor spaces and urging adults to work from home.
Johnson made the shift to what he called “plan B” after his country logged more than 560 cases of omicron and its Health Security Agency, which monitors COVID in the U.K., determined that cases of the strain could be doubling every two-to-three days.
“While the picture may get better, and I sincerely hope that it will, we know that the remorseless logic of exponential growth could lead to a big rise in hospitalizations and therefore, sadly, in deaths,” Johnson said in a news conference on Wednesday evening.
He said the spread of the heavily mutated variant in Britain now mirrors the growth in cases experienced in South Africa, which has faced an intense spike in recent weeks and is now suffering through a rise in hospitalizations.
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www.the-sun.com/health/4228357/boris-johnson-plan-b-today-2-2/
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