BRITS face yet another uncertain Christmas amid Covid related lockdown and supply chain chaos, Boris Johnson has admitted.
Asked if things will be back to normal this year, the Prime Minister, who left yesterday, could only offer hope that “we certainly don’t want or expect to have to do anything like last year”.
PM admits Brits are set to face another uncertain Christmas amid supply chain chaos
He added that cancelling festivities “is very much not the plan” amid fears of empty shelves and overwhelmed hospitals. Referring to the Plan B option – announced last week for the Autumn and winter season in the UK.
Speaking from New York, Mr Johnson compared the economic recovery to “the big thaw” after water in pipes had frozen.
He said: “That’s when you have the problems and the leaks and difficulties.”
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New covid travel rules, no PCR test and an overhaul of the travel traffic light system have been simplified in England with a single red list, and no PCR test for fully vaccinated, from 4 October. For fully vaccinated travellers will no longer be required to have negative covid tests for those returning to England.
While travel is a devolved matter, the Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish governments have often followed the UK government’s rules during the pandemic. Wales said it would “carefully consider” the proposed changes.
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