Covid: no to plan B in GB, it would cost '18 billion to the economy '

(ANSA) - LONDON, OCTOBER 26 - There would be a document from the British Treasury, sent to Downing Street and filtered in the last few hours, behind the decision of the government of Boris Johnson not to have for now a more restrictive plan B than anti Covid measures - in spite of pressure from some experts and media rumors - in the face of the increase in contagions in recent weeks. According to the Politico.Ue website, which writes to have intercepted it, the document indicates the potential cost for the UK economy of a (partial) restoration of the restrictions that such a plan would entail at 18 billion pounds.

    What weighs - reads the text cited by the site - would not be the re-imposition of the obligation of masks for collective transport and in the most crowded public places - completely revoked in England from 19 July and replaced at the moment by a simple recommendation - but the introduction of some form of vaccination Green Pass and above all the consequences of the indication to a wide-ranging return to work from home, also provided for by this reserve strategy. According to Politico, Johnson's choice to continue to insist rather on plan A: that is, on a relaunch of vaccines as a barrier effect against the most pregnant repercussions of infections (hospitalizations and deaths) through theacceleration of the third dose to all vulnerable people and over 50s and of the single dose foreseen in the Kingdom for children between 12 and 15 years old. All the more in the wake of the data on recent cases, which have returned to decline even without plan B. (ANSA).