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Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'dead set' on avoiding another lockdown

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Published date13 September 2021
Publication titleWalesOnline (Wales)
Mr Johnson is expected to address the country via a press conference on Tuesday to underline how vaccinations will be a central part of the response to coronavirus in the coming months.

Although a number of measures to control Covid are set to be loosened, The Daily Telegraph reported that the PM would tell MPs and the country that “we need to learn to live with Covid” and that vaccines would provide the main defence.

Government data up to September 11 shows that of the 92,414,463 Covid jabs given in the UK, 48,422,588 were first doses, a rise of 27,229 on the previous day.

Some 43,991,875 were second doses, an increase of 96,435.

The UK’s chief medical officers are also drawing up advice to Government on whether children aged 12 to 15 should be vaccinated after the JCVI said the margin of benefit from vaccinating healthy children was too small to say they should receive a jab.

A senior Government source told the newspaper: “The autumn and winter do offer some uncertainty but the Prime Minister is dead set against another lockdown.”

It comes after Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Sunday that there was a “whole toolbox” of measures in place to help control Covid, but that vaccine passports would not be one of them.

In the latest of the Government’s coronavirus U-turns, Mr Javid announced plans to introduce vaccine passports in England for nightclubs and other crowded venues had been scrapped.

Mr Javid confirmed the proposals “will not be going ahead” just days after ministers had defended the policy to sceptical MPs.

Mr Johnson had...

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