{"id":1099123,"date":"2021-12-08T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099123"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:13:58","slug":"covid-1984-boris-locking-down-britain-before-christmas-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-1984-boris-locking-down-britain-before-christmas-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-1984: Boris Locking Down Britain Before Christmas&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcovid-1984-boris-locking-down-britain-before-christmas-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Speaking after a day of swirling controversy over an allegedly lockdown-busting Christmas party at Downing Street, UK PM Boris Johnson has introduced vaccine passports for England and has extended a number of other measures, potentially pointing to an imperilled Christmas for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18:20 UPDATE: Prime Minister Johnson suggests UK will need to have \u201cconversation\u201d about possible mandatory vaccination<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Responding to a question from a member of the public on possible mandatory vaccinations, Prime Minister Johnson said that while he had said early on in the pandemic that he \u201cdidn\u2019t want us to have a society and a culture where we forced people to get vaccinated\u201d, that he believed \u201cthere is going to&nbsp;come a point\u201d where \u201cwe are going to have to have a conversation about ways in which we deal with this pandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister continued: \u201cI want to be absolutely clear with you: I don\u2019t believe we can keep going indefinitely with non-pharmaceutical interventions, I mean restrictions on people\u2019s way of life just because a substantial proportion of the population still sadly has not got vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think we\u2019ll need to have a national conversation about the way forward. And the other things that we can do to protect those who are hard to reach, who haven\u2019t got vaccinated for one reason or another.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut that is a stage we will come to, if and when, we establish that the booster is effective against Omicron and the booster is capable of holding Omicron, getting us back into that equilibrium the double jabs got us into with Delta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s at that moment we will have to talk seriously about moving on from thinking about further NPIs [non-pharmaceutical interventions],\u201d Mr Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Original story continues below\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke from the government\u2019s blue press briefing room Wednesday night \u2014 itself the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/boris-press-spox-allegra-stratton-resigns-from-govt-role-amid-swirling-lockdown-party-claims\/\">scene of the day\u2019s Allegra Stratton lockdown party comments controversy<\/a> \u2014 announcing new lockdown measures for England, blaming the government\u2019s lack of knowledge about the Omnicron variant for the move.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson said the fact that Omnicron was spreading considerably faster than the previously well known Delta without the British government understanding whether it was more dangerous or not, revealing there were now 568 confirmed cases in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Calling the growth of Omnicron \u201cexponential\u201d, the Prime Minister said that could mean \u201ca big increase of hospitalisations\u201d, hence today\u2019s fresh crackdown.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19054738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237097518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19054738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237097518.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LONDON, ENGLAND \u2013 DECEMBER 08: British prime Minister Boris Johnson (C) Britain\u2019s Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty (L) and Britain\u2019s Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance hold a press conference at 10 Downing Street on December 8, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Adrian Dennis-WPA Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The government is once again asking the public to work from home \u201cif you can\u201d and will extend mask mandates to new indoors spaces including theatres and cinemas, although the Prime Minister said there would be exemptions for \u201ceating\u201d and \u201csinging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a major shakeup, England is to be subjected to mandatory vaccine status passports for some venues. Valid if the individual has two injections \u2014 although the Prime Minister made clear that would likely soon change to three \u2014 or with a recent negative test, the passes would apply to high capacity venues like nightclubs.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said they would include indoor venues with an unseated capacity of 500, outdoor unseated of 4,000, and venues of any type with a capacity of more than 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister told the nation: \u201c\u2026since I last spoke to you it has beocme increasingly clear that Omnicron is increasing much faster than the previous Delta variant and it is spreading rapidly all throughout the world\u2026.&nbsp;it\u2019s now the proportionate and responsible thing to move to \u2018plan B\u2019 in England\u2026 so we slow the spread of the virus, buy ourselves the time to get more boosters into arms and especially in the older and more vulnerable people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking after a day of swirling controversy over an allegedly lockdown-busting Christmas party at Downing Street, UK PM Boris Johnson has introduced vaccine passports for England and has extended a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}