COVID-19 restrictions could be reintroduced if rise in cases hits NHS backlog, minister warns

Opening the debate, Labour health spokeswoman Baroness Merron said there had been a"stark rise" ininfections, but the government had"been noticeably silent, perhaps being somewhat distracted".

She asked if ministers were planning to run a campaign highlighting rising cases and the benefits of getting a COVID vaccine, as well as whether the government would consider reintroducing mandatory mask-wearing in hospitals.Lord Kamall replied:"We are always ready to stand up measures should the case rates rise so much that our health system was under pressure, but also what we have managed to do is break the link between infections and hospitalisations, and hospitalisations and death.

Lord Kamall said some in the health system believed future COVID cash would be"better spent elsewhere given the backlog due to lockdown" rather than on free tests for all. He added:"All this will continue to be monitored. Should the number of cases spiral out of control then clearly we would look to reintroduce free testing at some stage if it needed that."

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

The backlog caused by the previous action taken due to coronavirus you mean? 🤔

Good idea, they stopped all previous waves didn’t they…

Such a click bait story

It was ludicrous to have removed them in the first place!! Democide Genocide COVID19 CovidIsNotOver letthebodiespilehigh

Bet no one chasing the PM role wants him on their side.

What b/s this was always going to happen this sc*m puppet gov inflicted this scamdemic to kill & control people using you crap msm to spread there propaganda. Only 34%of Britain's believe you crap msm.This n*zi puppet gov will pay nurenberg 2 & so will you all msm

But, but the Health Minister says the pandemic is over!…….

With the country at boiling point already literally and figuratively thanks to rampant inflation, no acting government etc plus the temperatures now - it would be interesting to see the results of those restrictions

Coronavirus is like a warning to humans to change their ways or prepare for the worst to come ☹️.

Nope

Is it because they forced the Vax to the NHS workers saying you won't have a job if you don't, now they are always sick so the unvaxxed have to cover for them 😉 Wake up ffs. Keep off MSM 👍

Project fear ramping up again

What utter rubbish!!!!! A lot of the NHS backlogs were cause by lockdowns and the NHS becoming a one illness service. Get on with the job you are paid for - treating people for real illnesses, not a bloody cold.

Listen ministers, the country is broke, we can afford a lock down unless we become a tax haven so money can come in! Everyone's needs to calm down!!

Get feckd

'The vaccines are effective' what happened to that a little while ago

No never again!

Good luck with that

Well we will see

Learning to live with covid (a virus with a 99.8% survival rate) lasted long then!

What a fuckin joke. Vaccine ma arse. Total con

Good luck with that

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Masks just lower peoples immune systems we have to just live with this cant believe people are even testing still etc pathetic

They can get f**cked. We won't be complying.. Its a cold.

Lol. NO!

I am doing fine, you fill your boots with your restrictions, not for me 🙋‍♀️

Like fuck

Yeah good luck with that

Please call them safeguards not restrictions!

Just get the ffp2, ffp3 on in crowded indoor spaces and isolate if infected, support the people financially

Only a nation of cowards would accept this future for their children and grand children

Let the government try it, I dare them.

I will not comply to this sh*t

Not in my reality

Not a chance in fuc£ing hell in my world. Just saying.

The longest running pandemic in history, over three years, and most people have supposedly been vaccinated several times against it. Can someone make it make sense please?

No one will listen anymore

covid protections not restrictions.

They have no mandate to impose any restrictions. They will be ignored en masse

Good luck NOT DOING IT love 98% of the sane majority in the UK 👍🏻

Well you know what he can do with those!!

Largest increase in icu and hospitalisation is in the 75 and over age group which has according to government data 92% are triple jabbed. Yet let's restrict everyone. Doing the same thing over and over and still hoping for a different result

I thought we were supposed to learn to live with covid and get on with living?

Never going to happen unless you want to see a Sri Lanka style riot

I had covid last week, and I know 6 other people who had it recently, none of us reported it , there must be millions of people doing the same , just got to get on with life.

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If you’ve got covid - watch Netflix & chill - it’s no hardship to stay away from people for a few days!

Madness.

Party time

You can suck my left nut I’m not doing this again

Sky propaganda again

GFYS lol

If the country doesn't elect the prime minister then we should ignore the prime minister ister Where is the democracy in a handful of people choosing who should enforce laws on a entire population They have no mandate to rule

You lot are on the giggle twig again I see. Stop it.

Why not give Furlough to the rich again also..🤣🤣..

Even larger increases in gas/electric bills are going to be a bigger problem this year for the elderly and vunerable, if you are cold and damp then any respiratory infection will thrive, never mind covid.

😂😂 can just imagine the public complying with this 🙈😩😜

Its okay, we'll use the Nightingale hospitals again...oh hang on

You mean the backlog caused by the restrictions?

Open the doctors again and the nhs backlog will go down. My doctors are still closed and everything done by phone, that is if you can manage to get though between 8:30 and 8:45

*Mitigations Stop the negative narrative that MITIGATIONS are deemed restrictions. We invoke safety mitigations in our lives every single day (seatbelts, stop signs, crash helmets). None of these things are negative “restrictions”; they’re individual & public safety mitigations.

Good luck with that. The vast majority of England will never obey accept or carry out further restrictions.

All the No sayers are very brave in their defiance whilst commentating on twitter but I think toeing the line will be the order of the day once restrictions are brought in again . We'll see ..

Bring back Boris if we are having this nonsense again. Had 3 jabs to not have restrictions!

Not interested.

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No chance of compliance

BBBYetAgain Naff off

Shove them where the Sun don't shine.

Broken record. No one who’s done their homework is listening anymore. Follow this guy on telegram.

“Could” the word the media uses to spread lies

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