Boris Johnson has lined up a string of strict restrictions against Omicron spread. Whether it’s vaccine passports or travel protocols, the British government has done everything to stop the infection, reports The Sun.
Hospitalization count will be the deciding factor of lifting or imposing restrictions.
Omicron: a contagious but milder variant
It comes as a gift of Christmas that the first official UK report and from a string of hugely positive studies revealing the risk of hospitalization is 50 to 70 per cent lower than with Delta.
Concluding, Omicron is milder than other strains.
Although, health officials have repeatedly said that protection against the variant works best with booster jabs. They add that chances to get through the pandemic.
Can raging cases in Britain fade like South Africa?
December 22 recorded 1,246 cases and up to 55 per cent from the week before in England, According to The Times.
According to the United Kingdom Health Security Agency, the number of deaths has risen to 29 in England because of the Omicron variant, with hospital admissions confirmed or suspected Omicron cases rising to 366.
The National Health Service will continue to roll out vaccines to protect people from Omicron on Christmas Day and Boxing Day this year.
There is a glimmer of hope from what happened in South Africa.
In South, Africa cases soared but dropped down in a couple of months. Scientists and political leaders hope the same to be revised in other parts of the world like the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
Furthermore, South African scientists are confident that the Omicron outbreak may last a total of just a couple of months.
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