Instead of Corona regulations, the British Prime Minister is now relying on the personal responsibility of the citizens. Herd immunity in combination with the high vaccination rate should protect against infection with the virus in the future. Experts consider the move premature.
Johnson went a step further. The rapid and PCR tests previously available free of charge in the UK via the internet or in pharmacies will be phased out at the beginning of April. In doing so, London deliberately accepts that far fewer citizens even know whether they have a Covid infection.
According to Johnson, the free edition of the tests cost British taxpayers the equivalent of 2.2 billion euros in January 2022. Covid contact tracing will also be discontinued from April, as will Corona sick pay.
67 leading British scientists warned Johnson and his chief advisers in an open letter that the lifting of all measures and testing "will almost certainly increase the spread of the virus, while at the same time the visibility of worrying new mutations will disappear".
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti...ty_ordered
Johnson went a step further. The rapid and PCR tests previously available free of charge in the UK via the internet or in pharmacies will be phased out at the beginning of April. In doing so, London deliberately accepts that far fewer citizens even know whether they have a Covid infection.
According to Johnson, the free edition of the tests cost British taxpayers the equivalent of 2.2 billion euros in January 2022. Covid contact tracing will also be discontinued from April, as will Corona sick pay.
67 leading British scientists warned Johnson and his chief advisers in an open letter that the lifting of all measures and testing "will almost certainly increase the spread of the virus, while at the same time the visibility of worrying new mutations will disappear".
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti...ty_ordered