Prof Peter Openshaw, a member of the uk's New and emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory neighborhood (Nervtag), has backed the reintroduction of some preventative measures in England, telling BBC Radio four's today programme this morning: "I don't believe it's a binary go for plan B or nothing, it's very clear that the measures that are in included in plan B are brilliant and never very disruptive."
PA Media goes on to cite him saying: "It's now not troublesome to supply clear management about the use of face masks, and working at home in case you can is also now not particularly disruptive for many people. these measures are more likely to lead to an exquisite good discount within the truly unacceptable number of instances that we've received in the intervening time.
"To my mind, the introduction of vaccine passports is additionally great – it's been permitted very comfortably in most other western European international locations.
"It's very sensible, in case you had been going into a crowded indoor area and knew every person there had been wholly vaccinated and maybe had had a speedy test on the day, you'd believe a good deal extra secure about going into that space.
"What we're dealing with in the meanwhile is unacceptable we've acquired roughly one in fifty five individuals contaminated, which is an astonishingly high cost compared to most different west European international locations. this is connected with the lack of clear messaging about good measures that we should all be taking so as to in the reduction of the unfold of infection."
here's a map indicating the newest caseloads across Europe, which shows the extent to which the uk is an outlier compared to identical international locations in the west of the continent.
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