The Leader Podcast: Do we need a Plan B to beat a Covid Christmas?

Winter is coming...and as the nights draw in there’s a warning from our recent past - could we see Covid cases overwhelm hospital beds, and should we ride it out or batten down the hatches once more?

As Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng rules out another lockdown, we talk data and risk for the months ahead with Professor Adam Finn, a member of the Government’s vaccination advisory body the JCVI.

His warnings come as the UK registered 43,738 confirmed Covid cases, with the Government still hoping to avoid implementing its Plan B, which includes Covid-status certification in certain settings, legally mandating face coverings and asking more people to work from home if they can.

The Government has so far dismissed appeals to introduce its Plan B Covid restrictions with ministers saying the vaccine booster programme and plan to immunise children aged between 12 and 15 will avoid the need for tighter restrictions even as the NHS battles winter flu and a backlog of non-Covid treatment.

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