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There would be a document from the British Treasury, sent to Downing Street and filtered in the last few hours, behind the decision by the government of Boris Johnson not to trigger a more restrictive plan B of anti-Covid measures for now – despite the pressure of some experts and of media indiscretions – in the face of the increase in infections in recent weeks. According to the Politico.Ue website, which writes that it has intercepted it, the document indicates the potential cost to the UK economy of a (partial) restoration of the restrictions that this plan would entail at 18 billion pounds.
To weigh – reads the text cited by the site – it would not be so much the re-imposition of the obligation of masks on collective transport and in the most crowded public places – completely revoked in England from 19 July and replaced at the moment by a simple recommendation – but the introduction of some form of vaccination Green Pass and above all the consequences of the indication to a wide-ranging return to work from home, also foreseen by this reserve strategy. Hence, according to Politico, Johnson’s choice to continue to insist rather on plan A: that is, on a relaunch of vaccines as a barrier effect against the most serious repercussions of infections (hospitalizations and deaths) through the acceleration of the third dose to all the vulnerable and the over 50s and the single dose provided in the Kingdom for children between 12 and 15 years old. All the more in the wake of the data on cases of the last few days, which have returned to decline even without plan B.
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