Sajid Javid has refused to rule out imposing a circuit breaker banning household mixing before Christmas and said that there can be “no guarantees” given the spread of the Omicron variant. The health secretary suggested that the government may need to act even if the data on Omicron is still not clear. “If we wait until the data is perfect, it may be too late,” he said. SponsoredPushed on whether the circuit breaking could be imposed before Christmas, Javid told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One: “There are no guarantees in this pandemic, I don’t think. At this point we just have to keep everything under review.”He added: “We are assessing the situation, it’s very fast-moving.

Source: The Times December 19, 2021 21:35 UTC