UK medical journals call for Christmas Covid rules to be reversed
by Jessica Elgot and Nicola Davis from Science | The Guardian on (#5BNS7)
Call echoed by head of hospital doctors' union and in a letter from Keir Starmer to the PM
Plans to relax Covid restrictions at Christmas must be reversed or many lives risk being lost, according to a rare joint editorial from two of the UK's most eminent medical journals.
That call was echoed by the head of the hospital doctors' union, who described the government's plans as kamikaze". Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, also urged Boris Johnson to reconsider the restrictions in a letter to the prime minister on Tuesday afternoon.
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