BBCNEWS Newsday December 20, 2021 01:10:00
The scenarios for curbing omicron are an echo of lockdown controls from earlier this year, including closing indoor hospitality and limits on mixing of households. you don't have time to dither. this thing is coming at us like an express train. there is no evidence yet to be clear in suggesting it's less serious, and if we wait, we could be in a real crisis. and that is the dilemma for ministers. do they wait until the threat from omicron becomes clear and hope to avoid lockdown measures, or act now as a precaution and risk the wrath of many in their own party and beyond westminster? fergus wa...