“The UK should go into lockdown before Christmas or it will be ‘too late’, a Sage adviser has warned as scientists call for a two-week ban on household mixing ‘very soon’.
“It is hoped a circuit breaker could stop Omicron hospitalisations peaking at 3,000 a day, according to Stephen Reicher, professor of social psychology at the University of St Andrews and a member of Sage, who spoke in a personal capacity.
“He said it was clear that Plan B measures alone would not be enough to stop the spiralling numbers of cases and that the Government needs to ‘act now’.
“He added: ‘Now, you could have it after Christmas, the problem is after Christmas it’s probably too late, it’s probably by then we will have had a huge surge of infections with all the impact upon society.'”
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