Relaxing Covid-19 restrictions at Christmas will cost many lives , experts warn. (PA Wire/Canva) Pressure is mounting on the Government to rethink the easing of Covid-19 restrictions over Christmas with leading medical journals warning the move could “cost many lives”. The British Medical Journal and Health Service Journal have written a joint editorial for only the second time in 100 years to call on the Government to rethink their strategy. They said that the Government “is about to blunder into another major error that will cost many lives”. The warning, authored by HSJ editor Alastair McLellan and BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee said: “When Government devised the current plans to allow household mixing over Christmas it had assumed the Covid-19 demand on the NHS would be decreasing.
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Pressure is being put on the UK Government to scrap Christmas bubble plans which would allow household mixing.
Two leading medical journals are demanding that Boris Johnson changes the plans warning they were about to blunder into another major error that will cost many lives if the rule relaxations go ahead.
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