Officials are drawing up plans for a two-week circuit breaker lockdown after Christmas, reports have suggested, including a ban on indoor mixing. This included a ban on indoor mixing and indoor hospitality. And they reportedly warned against delaying further interventions until 2022The UK reported more than 90,000 new Covid cases in another record daily total on Friday. Meanwhile, the UK’s devolved administrations have ramped up their demands for more cash support amid rising cases of the Omicron variant. Across the UK, 7,611 people are in hospital with the virus, a rise of 163 patients (2%) on the previous week.

Source: The Times December 17, 2021 23:07 UTC