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Prime Minister Boris Johnson and England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty held a news conference yesterday addressing plans around Christmas. Christmas will not be cancelled but caution has been advised. Wales has reduced the Christmas bubble household limit to just two households, but can Welsh people visit England if they intend to be part of three-household bubbles?
Twitter has erupted with memes after Boris Johnson urged the nation to have a merry little Christmas, amid festive bubble chaos in Wales and Scotland.
After crisis talks between the leaders of all four nations, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the easing of restrictions over Christmas would go ahead.
Mr Johnson advised people tonight to have a merry little Christmas, saying the three household bubble law were maximums, not targets to aim for, in England.
He said the laws would remain the same but urged people to delay seeing elderly relatives not yet vaccinated, and that a smaller Christmas is going to be a safer Christmas
Boris Johnson urges people to have a smaller and shorter Christmas despite the rules being relaxed for five days
Pressure to cancel the Christmas plans has mounted in recent days due to the ongoing challenge in controlling the spread of coronavirus
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