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Covid: No 10 'keeping a close eye' on rising cases - BBC News
Oct 19, 2021 1 min, 32 secs

Downing Street says it is "keeping a very close eye" on rising Covid cases - but the cabinet has not yet discussed rolling out its Plan B to control coronavirus in England this winter.

Downing Street said Mr Johnson had stressed that the government's autumn and winter plan "continues to keep the virus under control".

No 10 said the government was "not complacent" about rising cases but that, due to the vaccination programme, "the levels we are seeing in both patients admitted to hospital and deaths are far lower than we saw in previous peaks".

The seven-day average of new Covid cases in the UK has risen from around 34,000 a day at the beginning of October to 44,145 cases per day.

"Clearly we're keeping a very close eye on rising case rates," the prime minister's spokesman said.

He said there were "no plans" to use the Plan B contingency measures but stressed that the most important message for the public was "the vital importance of the booster programme and indeed for those children who are eligible to come forward and get our jab".

Children aged 12 to 15 in England will be able to book their jabs at vaccination centres, as well as through school, after concerns about rollout delays.

Scotland has set out a winter vaccination strategy and already has measures in place such as the requirement of proof of vaccination status at nightclubs and face masks in schools.

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