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The sharp rise in infections is also driven by fast-spreading variants of the virus.
In fact, in the face of these worrying figures, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Monday night will address the nation with a televised speech to formalize the announcement new anti-Covid grip. “If you look at the numbers,” Johnson explained when announcing live television, “there is no doubt that we will have to adopt stricter measures and we will announce them in due course.” However, the premier said he was convinced that the next few weeks will be “very hard”, and could come new school closings (according to the media they will remain closed until mid February), curfew and a total ban on meetings between people who do not live together.
While schools in London are already closed due to high contagion rates, in fact in many other parts of the country students have already returned to face-to-face classes after the Christmas holidays. Teachers’ unions, however, have asked schools in England to remain closed for at least two weeks, switching to distance education.
In short, the new restrictions could result in the introduction of an “alert 5” compared to the current 4-level alarm system updated shortly before Christmas: yes
essentially it would be a third general closure thereafter in spring and the one month imposed in England from November to December 2. But with
adding a total closure of elementary and middle schools Unprecedented in the Kingdom in recent months, and with the restoration of distance education: an election, openly urged to the government by the leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer.
Meanwhile, Downing Street has specified that the Conservative government has also decided to reconvene Parliament on Wednesday before the official end of the Christmas holidays to discuss further measures and ask for a vote of support. Scotland, on the other hand, has already announced a total lockdown for the entire month of January.
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