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The Government of the
United Kingdom
advanced today that it plans to eliminate the "legal requirement" to isolate itself for a period of time after testing positive for coronavirus and replace that obligation with health "recommendations".
“We are exploring where we can further relax the restrictions,” British Health Minister
Sajid Javid
said at a press conference after Chief Executive
Boris Johnson
announced in the morning the end of the obligation to wear a mask in any space, teleworking and the vaccination passport.
"We must learn to
live with Covid in the same way that we do with the flu,"
said the minister, who plans to present his long-term plan to deal with the virus in the spring and stressed that the United Kingdom is "the country freest in
Europe"
regarding the limitations to avoid contagion.
The minister pointed out that the decision on eliminating mandatory quarantines has not yet been made, but he maintained that "it is reasonable to think" that Covid will be managed like other diseases in which "people are not legally forced to isolate themselves, but rather to be cautious and act sensibly if they are infected."
The use of
masks in educational settings
and the recommendation to
telework
have been
abolished with immediate effect,
while
Covid passports
and the mask in all
public spaces
will cease to be in force
next week.
Nearly 100
Conservative Party
deputies rebelled in December against these measures, which the Executive took to deal with the wave of the omicron variant, and many of them today welcomed Johnson's decision to withdraw them.
The prime minister is struggling to stay in office in the face of the threat of a process to remove him as party leader if at least 54 of his deputies request it in writing.
In the country as a whole,
108,069 new
coronavirus infections were reported today, 16.6% less than the previous Wednesday.
In the last seven days, 1,865 deaths from Covid have been reported, 8.2% more than the previous seven.
According to the latest official data, 18,979 people were admitted to British hospitals on Tuesday, compared to 21,280 hospitalized that were reached at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic, in April 2020.
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