Boris Johnson resists lockdown as Omicron fuels record 218,000 daily coronavirus cases in UK

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday said that England could withstand a surge in Covid-19 infections without shutting down the economy as Britain reported another record daily high in cases, fuelled by the Omicron variant.Johnson has resisted imposing stringent lockdown measures in England, betting that a vaccine booster drive and caution among the population would be enough to constrain the latest wave.The United Kingdom reported 218,724 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, a record for…

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