{"id":22237,"date":"2020-10-28T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=22237"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:29:05","slug":"covid-19-too-early-to-say-what-christmas-rules-will-be-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/10\/28\/covid-19-too-early-to-say-what-christmas-rules-will-be-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: &#8216;Too early to say&#8217; what Christmas rules will be says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><b class=\"css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s too early to say&#8221; what Covid rules will be in place by Christmas, the environment secretary has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>George Eustice warned people &#8220;may not be able to get together in the larger groups that they normally would&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Opposition parties have called for coronavirus rules to be the same across all four UK nations this Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Meanwhile Sage member Sir Mark Walport has said there is &#8220;little to feel reassured about&#8221;, adding &#8220;there are still many people that are vulnerable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Speaking to the BBC&#8217;s Today programme, the former chief scientific advisor said it&#8217;s &#8220;certainly not unrealistic&#8221; to think there could be 25,000 people in hospital with Covid by the end of next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>He said that &#8220;we are better&#8221; at treating coronavirus but that the country is &#8220;still relatively early in the second wave&#8221; and there is a &#8220;significant lag&#8221; between getting the infection and potentially dying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too early to say&rdquo; what Covid rules will be in place by Christmas, the environment secretary has said. George Eustice warned people &ldquo;may not be able to get together in the larger groups that they normally would&rdquo;. Opposition parties have called for coronavirus rules to be the same across all four UK nations this Christmas. Meanwhile Sage member Sir Mark Walport has said there is &ldquo;little to feel reassured about&rdquo;, adding &ldquo;there are still many people that are vulnerable&rdquo;. Speaking to the BBC&rsquo;s Today programme, the former chief scientific<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22239,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237\/revisions\/22239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}