Boris Johnson has suggested that England will not return to a localised tier system of restrictions as Covid-19 infections and hospital admissions slow, saying the infectiousness of the new variant had made the system less workable.
Speaking during a visit to a vaccination centre in Batley, West Yorkshire, the prime minister said most regions were responding in a similar way. “It may be that a national approach, going down the tiers in a national way, might be better this time round, given that the disease is behaving much more nationally,” he said.
Johnson said he had not ruled out returning to a regional approach if there were obvious advantages but said the picture was pretty uniform.
“If you look at the way the new variant has taken off across the country, it’s a pretty national phenomenon,” he said. “The charts I see, we’re all sort of moving pretty much in the same sort of way. I mean there are a few discrepancies, a few differences, so it may be that we will go for a national approach but there may be an advantage still in some regional differentiation as well. I’m keeping an open mind on that.”
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