Top infectious diseases expert Peter Collignon, has slammed new modelling presented to government predicting 200,000 Covid cases a day by January, calling it ridiculous .
Britain's health secretary, Sajid Javid, has refused to rule out the introduction of tighter restrictions before Christmas to try and limit the spread of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, but told the BBC that any such measures would not be "a lockdown at all by any means".
Rapid antigen tests have become the new hot ticket item of the Covid-19 pandemic as hordes of shoppers strip pharmacy and supermarket shelves bare in a pre-Christmas rush to get tested.
Britain's health secretary, Sajid Javid, has refused to rule out the introduction of tighter restrictions before Christmas to try and limit the spread of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, but told the BBC that any such measures would not be "a lockdown at all by any means".
Britain's health secretary, Sajid Javid, has refused to rule out the introduction of tighter restrictions before Christmas to try and limit the spread of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, but told the BBC that any such measures would not be "a lockdown at all by any means".