{"id":1204109,"date":"2022-01-10T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204109"},"modified":"2022-01-10T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:34:50","slug":"britain-will-lead-world-in-learning-to-live-with-covid-says-govt-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/britain-will-lead-world-in-learning-to-live-with-covid-says-govt-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Will Lead World in Learning to Live with COVID, Says Govt Minister"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbritain-will-lead-world-in-learning-to-live-with-covid-says-govt-minister%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=1204109&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1234063481-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Britain may lead the world in learning to \u201cdeal with\u201d the Chinese coronavirus, Education minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly drafting plans to return to normality.<\/p>\n<p>While Britain faced some of the most stringent lockdown restrictions in the Western World at the outset of the Wuhan virus pandemic, England has of late become one of the freest nations in Europe in terms of lockdowns. Appearing to shrug off early omicron-variant panic, government and healthcare leaders have signalled that there is room for optimism in terms of returning to normal.<\/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>In an interview with Sky News\u2019 Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Education minister Nadhim Zahawi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/09\/nadhim-zahawi-uk-should-lead-move-from-pandemic-to-endemic-covid-video\">said<\/a>:&nbsp;\u201cI hope we will be one of the first major economies to demonstrate to the world how you transition from pandemic to endemic, and then deal with this however long it remains with us, whether that\u2019s five, six, seven, 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strikingly, top officials at the National Health Service (NHS) have backed off their typically lockdown-happy stance, with the&nbsp;chief executive of NHS Provider,&nbsp;Chris Hopson seemingly validating Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s decision to not impose more winter restrictions, saying that the health service\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cfront line will hold\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University,&nbsp;Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thetimes.co.uk\/the-times\/20220110\/page\/1\">told<\/a> Times Radio that Mr Johnson \u201cmay have got away with\u201d his \u201cgamble\u201d to hold off on additional lockdowns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t going to come down quickly, and it\u2019s going to be unbelievably tough for the NHS, but in terms of the really severe outcomes, then I think we know we can be a bit more optimistic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT WORKED: Over 100,000 took to the streets to protest France&#8217;s proposed vaccine pass regime after Macron said he wanted to &#8220;piss off&#8221; the unjabbed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pcl5sqbP4u\">https:\/\/t.co\/pcl5sqbP4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1480303759330791424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is reportedly drafting plans for a \u201cliving with COVID\u201d strategy expected to be implemented by March.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/politics\/boris-johnson-drawing-up-plans-uk-live-with-covid-testing-1391639\">report<\/a> from The i newspaper, unnamed Downing Street sources believe that the omicron variant is markedly milder than previous strains of the Chinese virus and therefore may signal that the pandemic may be waning in severity.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the report claimed that the government is planning on reducing the scale of the government\u2019s free testing regime, with the exception of those believed to be at higher risk. There are also signals that the government will look to decrease required isolation periods for those who test positive down to five days, in a bid to lessen the impact on businesses, schools, and hospitals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Whether widespread \u2018free\u2019 testing will actually be coming to an end in the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-michael-gove-refuses-to-deny-free-lateral-flow-tests-will-be-phased-out-in-the-coming-weeks-12512861\">remains contested<\/a>. Zahawi denied on Sunday that there were any plans to end the regime of testing, while cabinet colleague Michael Gove refused to rule it out the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the developments pressure on the government to further lockdown continues to be levelled from the establishment media. \u201cIt\u2019s time for London\u2019s unvaccinated to pay with their freedoms, not ours\u201d,&nbsp;Emily Sheffield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/09\/delingpole-make-the-unvaccinated-pay-demands-failed-ex-pms-sister-in-law\/\">wrote<\/a> in the <em>Evening Standard<\/em> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield, the sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister David Cameron, continued: \u201cMaintaining that our \u2018freedoms\u2019 are threatened by vaccine passports is a bogus argument from the conservative Right that has fuelled the mad obstinacy of the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delingpole: &#8216;Make the Unvaccinated Pay!&#8217; Demands Failed Ex-PM&#8217;s Sister-in-Law <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8YhiqZBFv2\">https:\/\/t.co\/8YhiqZBFv2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1480195154938155008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain may lead the world in learning to \u201cdeal with\u201d the Chinese coronavirus, Education minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly drafting plans to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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-1204109","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\/1204109","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204109\/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=1204109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}