we will hear about another christmas party in norway that led to the biggest omicron outbreak in europe, and from south africa where scientists have spent the last two weeks testing the vaccines against this new variant. good evening. borisjohnson has moved england to plan b in an effort to stop the spread of the omicron variant. from monday people will be encouraged to work from home wherever possible. but more immediately from friday facemasks will have be worn in most public indoor venues. that includes theatres, cinemas, and restaurants. and the nhs covid pass will now be mandatory for nightclubs and other venues with large crowds. remorseless logic of exponential growth could lead to a big rise in hospitalisations and therefore, sadly, and deaths. in hospitalisations and therefore,
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is announced by the prime minister is to slow things down, but it s doubling currently between two and three every two and three days. but there is no escaping the timing of today s announcement. for weeks borisjohnson has denied rumours that a christmas party was held in downing street, at this time last year, when london was under tier 3 restrictions. at the time, gatherings of more than two or more people were banned, as were christmas parties. senior ministers have consistently denied that any rules were broken. but now we have the video. a recording from last year, in which his team are seen joking and laughing about the party they had been to in downing st four days earlier. there are references to cheese and wine and you will hear mrjohnson s spokesperson allegra stratton, openly admitting there was no social distancing. there was a downing street christmas party friday night, do you recognise those reports? i went home.