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More ‘Experts’ Urge Boris Not to End Covid Restrictions

by Toby Young
19 February 2022 3:00 PM

Yesterday, SAGE and the NHS Federation raised the alarm about the Government’s plans to phase out all Covid restrictions. Today, it’s the turn of the BMA. All we need now is a joint letter from the authors of the John Snow Memorandum and we’ll have the full set. MailOnline has more on the latest doom-mongering.

The end of COVID-19 restrictions in England is premature and “not based on current evidence”, according to the British Medical Association.

Experts have warned an absence of testing and self-isolation will lead to a surge in cases in the country.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he will present his plan for ‘living with Covid’ when Parliament returns from a short recess on February 21st, with an aim of lifting the requirement to self-isolate by February 24th.

Dr. Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA council, told the Guardian the decision was “not based on current evidence and is premature”, adding: “It clearly hasn’t been guided by data or done in consultation with the healthcare profession.”

He said case rates remained exceptionally high, with one in 20 infected last week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics survey.

The Government has formed a strategy for living with Covid, which is expected to include the scrapping of free mass testing.

Meanwhile, all the indicators suggest Omicron is on the way out.

Yesterday it was revealed UK Health Security Agency bosses logged 47,685 positive tests over the past 24 hours, a fifth down on last week’s count.

The rolling seven-day average number of daily cases, considered a more accurate measure, has dipped to below 47,000, mirroring levels seen at the start of December before Omicron had properly taken off.

Daily hospital admissions across the UK have fallen by 8% over the same time-frame as the pressure on the NHS continues to recede. And deaths have fallen by 18%, with 158 victims recorded today.

What was that about the decision to lift restrictions not being guided by data, Dr. Chaand Nagpaul?

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BMAOmicronWHO

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