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Isolate NOW if you want to spend Christmas with grandparents, Health Secretary warns
15 Dec 2020, 12:47
Updated: 15 Dec 2020, 18:51
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HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock has urged Brits to isolate now in order to safely spend Christmas with grandparents and elderly relatives.
Christmas is just ten days away and festive bubbles are allowed from December 23 for five days.
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Matt Hancock last night explained that people should take precautions ahead of Christmas festivities Credit: Universal News & Sport (Scotland)
Ministers and health experts alike have warned the public to heed caution when seeing family and friends over the Christmas period.
Mr Hancock has advised that people stay vigilant in the run up to Christmas and experts previously stated that you should isolate for 10 days before spending the festive period with old or vulnerable relatives.
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Ministers under growing pressure to rethink rash relaxation of rules over Christmas Alan McGuinness, political reporter
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The government is coming under increasing pressure to rethink its relaxation of coronavirus rules over Christmas.
Two prominent medical journals have said ministers should follow the more cautious examples of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands and not ease
COVID-19 restrictions over the festive period.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has also called for ministers to think again.
Under plans agreed with the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, up to three households will be able to form a Christmas bubble and meet between 23 and 27 December.