Tougher tiered restrictions, though.
The United Kingdom may relax some coronavirus restrictions before Christmas although it comes at a cost: a new tiered system, freshly revamped from the last tiered system. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to release more details to the House of Commons on Monday but the gist of the plan involves making sure people can still do some shopping. Via The Sunday Times: Many of the government’s scientific advisers believe that retail is relatively low-risk activity in terms of spreading the infection if managed well. Thomas House, a reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester who sits on Sage’s SPI-M modelling subgroup, said: “If you think about what the worst kind of activity would be, it’s an enormous drunk New Year’s Eve party with lots of people in a confined space and high-risk individuals present. “Compared to that, shopping with good ventilation, where you can manage flows of people, where there’s contactless payment, where people who have symptoms have enough flexibility to think, ‘I’ve got a cough, so I won’t go this week’ — it does seem to be quite a safe activity.
