Boris Johnson has dismissed a call by the head of the UK’s public health watchdog for people to reduce the number of social contacts they have in the run-up to Christmas.
Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said the potential risks posed by the Omicron strain meant the public should “decrease” their contacts “a little bit” to help “keep the variant at bay”.
Downing Street rejected Harries’s suggestion, pointedly saying that her role was to advise the government rather than speak for it.
“She gives advice to government, she is not a government minister,” the prime minister’s spokesman said.
Johnson said that he did not think it was “necessary” to alter the government’s existing guidelines. “We’re not going to change
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2021-11-30 13:30:00Z
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