British Health Minister Sajid Javid declined on Sunday claims he will rule out new health measures with nearing Christmas to stem the spread of the new variant that is ravaging the country.
The UK has seen a rapid spread of the Omicron variant, reaching a rate of 40%, being among the first countries to detect the first case of the new variant on November 27.
The average number of new cases reported each day reaches a new high in the UK, currently reporting more than 72,500 daily cases, with the virus at its peak, according to the latest Reuters’COVID Tracker on December 19.
The UK’s Health Minister responded to BBC Television’s question about his ministry’s plans to impose stricter measures before Christmas. Javid said, “We are assessing the situation, it is very fast-moving.”
“There are no guarantees in this pandemic I don’t think. At this point, we just have to keep everything under review,” he added.
Most recently, a group of British researchers in the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases found in study results that the omicron variant may be less effective at attacking lungs than the other COVID-19 variants, adding mutations in the Spike protein, which make it able to avoid antibodies, may also limit how it multiplies in the lungs and not cause severe symptoms.
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