direct to your inboxThere are calls for the government to review its plans to relax coronavirus restrictions over the Christmas period - with fears the proposals could lead to an increase in cases.
Last month ministers announced a planned five-day Christmas easing to allow three households to mix indoors between December 23-27.But on Tuesday the British Medical Journal and Health Service Journal published a rare joint editorial calling for the “rash” decision to relax social distancing measures over the festive period to be scrapped.They said that the government “is about to blunder into another major error that will cost many lives”.The joint editorial warning, authored by HSJ editor Alastair McLellan and BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee,.