Apr 21, 2021 04:50 AM
(some fashions never die) Despite vaccines, UK will face ‘another Covid-19 wave this year’
PM Johnson warns, says country will have to ‘learn to live with virus’
https://www.rt.com/uk/521627-uk-johnson-...e-warning/
INTRO: The UK will be hit by yet another wave of Covid infections later this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said as he revealed that the government was looking into treating people with tablets against the disease.
“The majority of scientific opinion in this country is still firmly of the view that there will be another wave of Covid at some stage this year and so we must as far as possible learn to live with this disease,” he told a news briefing on Tuesday.
The PM added that with record infection levels around the world, “we cannot delude ourselves that Covid has gone away.”
He also said he saw nothing in the data to suggest the UK would have to deviate from its “cautious but irreversible” roadmap out of lockdown... (MORE)
RELATED (8 days ago): UK's Johnson warns lockdown, not vaccines, behind drop in COVID deaths
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UK households suffer bigger income hit than in Germany and France: study
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business...-1.1207565
INTRO: British households have suffered a more severe income shock during the pandemic than their counterparts in France and Germany, a new study from a UK think tank showed. People in Britain also took on more debt after job losses than residents in the two European countries, the Resolution Foundation’s After Shocks report in conjunction with JP Morgan Chase found... (MORE)
PM Johnson warns, says country will have to ‘learn to live with virus’
https://www.rt.com/uk/521627-uk-johnson-...e-warning/
INTRO: The UK will be hit by yet another wave of Covid infections later this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said as he revealed that the government was looking into treating people with tablets against the disease.
“The majority of scientific opinion in this country is still firmly of the view that there will be another wave of Covid at some stage this year and so we must as far as possible learn to live with this disease,” he told a news briefing on Tuesday.
The PM added that with record infection levels around the world, “we cannot delude ourselves that Covid has gone away.”
He also said he saw nothing in the data to suggest the UK would have to deviate from its “cautious but irreversible” roadmap out of lockdown... (MORE)
RELATED (8 days ago): UK's Johnson warns lockdown, not vaccines, behind drop in COVID deaths
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UK households suffer bigger income hit than in Germany and France: study
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business...-1.1207565
INTRO: British households have suffered a more severe income shock during the pandemic than their counterparts in France and Germany, a new study from a UK think tank showed. People in Britain also took on more debt after job losses than residents in the two European countries, the Resolution Foundation’s After Shocks report in conjunction with JP Morgan Chase found... (MORE)