LONDON: Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and schools in the UK and Passport Covid-19 will be imposed on various events as a level of infection leveled in most countries, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.
Johnson told MPs that the limitation was revealed because the government scientists believed that the surge in infection requested by a highly contagious Omicron variant “has now peaked nationally”.
While the hospital in North England is still under pressure due to high casel, Johnson said hospital admissions and patients in the intensive care unit elsewhere in the UK stabilize or fall.
The government will no longer give advice to people to work from home and start the next Thursday Thursday Mandatory Covid-19 Passes will not be asked to get into a large scale event.
The mandatory face mask will be removed in the classroom starting on Thursday, and from next week they will not be legally requested in the UK.
“We will trust the rating of the British people and no longer criminalize anyone who chooses not to wear it,” Johnson said.
Restrictions were introduced in December to slow down the rapid spread of Omicron variants and purchase time for residents to get their booster vaccine shots.
Johnson said on Wednesday that more than 90% of those aged over 60 in England now have their booster shots.
Official numbers show that Covid-19 infection has dropped in most of the UK for the first time since early December, with 94,432 new positive cases recorded on Tuesday.
Requirements for those infected with isolation of themselves for five full days remained, but Johnson said that the size would also end in the coming weeks.
He said while the rules of self isolation ended on March 24 he would try to scrap early if the virus data continued to improve.
“Because Covid becomes endemic, we need to change legal requirements with suggestions and guidance, urging people with viruses to be careful and pay attention to others,” he said.
Even so, Johnson urged people to stay cautious in the last weeks of winter and emphasize that pandemic “not over.” The news was welcomed by business, especially those who rely on workers back in central populations, as well as hospitality and tourism.
But some of the officials need to provide more details about their plans to overcome Corenavirus in the long run.
A spokesman Johnson said the government would publish such a plan “shortly.” “There is a vital need now for greater consistency in how we live with a long-term virus.
Swinging back and forth between restrictions and normality has destroyed,” Matthew said, the Head of the British Industrial Confederation Policy.
Scotland and Wales, which set their own public health rules, have also announced the easing of similar limits.
England had the second worst pandemic victim in Europe after Russia, with more than 153,000 deaths related to the virus confirmed.