UK ministers on Thursday continued to resist pressure to impose new Covid restrictions in England, after a doctors’ union claimed the government was being “wilfully negligent” in refusing to move to its Plan B.
Edward Argar, health minister, said he did not believe the NHS in England was facing “unsustainable pressure”, in spite of rising hospitalisations and new Covid cases running at over 40,000 a day.
But NHS bosses have said Plan B — including compulsory mask-wearing in some settings, “work from home” advice and Covid passports for entrance to clubs and mass events — should be introduced immediately.
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