Concerns and criticisms emerge from some British scientists and doctors about the decision taken yesterday by the government of Boris Johnson to wait for greater clarity on the data before deciding on a possible crackdown on anti-Covid restrictions to curb the surge in cases fueled by the new Omicron variant. The indications of the premier, weakened by a series of recent setbacks and by the internal fringe of part of the Tory majority, seem at the moment to actually point to a potential postponement of the squeeze until immediately after Christmas; But experts like epidemiologist Paul Hunter fear that waiting for data consolidation may prove too late if only to slow a wave of hospitalizations that can fill public health service hospitals:especially if the measures were taken only for New Year's Eve.
Professor Jeremy Farrar, infectious disease specialist and former consultant of the same government on the pandemic, for his part underlines the "dizzying transmissibility" of the new variant. But it still grants the executive a window of "24-36 hours" to be able to decide whether the trend will "remain" that of the last few days: marked in the United Kingdom by a constant increase in Omicron infections, albeit lower in relation to the population at Countries such as Denmark, Ireland and various non-European countries, and very similar to France or Germany (which have also recently shown a greater increase in deaths).
Meanwhile, from the world of business and newspapers, the urge to BoJo to get out of the "confusion" and to clarify the possible measures in sight rises from the option "in case of need, including a new lockdown or semi-lockdown.
