NHS Chief Warns Against Bonfire Of Covid Rules
The Independent|January 20, 2022
Masks won’t be required from next week and work-from-home advice is ending immediately after the prime minister announced the end of plan B rules in England.
Rebecca Thomas
NHS Chief Warns Against Bonfire Of Covid Rules

The legal duty to self-isolate with Covid-19 will also lapse from 24 March, Mr Johnson said, “just as we don’t place legal obligations on people to isolate if they have flu”.

Face coverings will be scrapped in classrooms from this Thursday, with school communal areas to follow. The bonfire of Covid rules came after ONS data showed Covid-19 cases were falling in most parts of England and after government scientists judged the Omicron variant had “now peaked nationally”.

But scrapping Covid measures “will do nothing to relieve the pressure” on hospitals and the virus hasn’t “magically disappeared,” nursing and NHS leaders warned. The NHS is still battling extreme pressures such as high levels of staff sickness, record-length delays in emergency care and a growing backlog that has left 6 million on waiting lists.

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