Compulsory facemasks will be scrapped next week and Boris Johnson has suggested that people with Covid-19 may soon be spared mandatory isolation. The prime minister announced the end of plan B measures in England as he insisted that the government had “got the big things right” on Covid. SponsoredDeclaring that the Omicron wave had peaked as gold-standard data showed a fall in infections, Johnson confirmed that working from home guidance would be dropped and Covid certification would end next Wednesday. He added: “There will soon come a time when we can remove the legal requirement to self-isolate altogether, just as we don’t face legal obligations on people to isolate if they have flu.”He dismissed the concerns of some health advisers by saying that requirements

Source: The Times January 19, 2022 22:09 UTC