Coronavirus latest: SAJID Javid will tonight dangle the prospect of a return to restrictions unless Brits get their boosters to tackle the Covid surge.
Mandatory masks, working from home and vaccine passports are all weapons in the Government’s arsenal to blunt another spike.
Ministers today “categorically ruled out” another lockdown – but have always suggested they’d take draconian steps if required.
Boris Johnson’s Plan B was announced last month as a back-up in case hospitalisations and deaths spiralled out of control as the country unlocked.
Yesterday Britain recorded 223 deaths – the highest since March – prompting fears of a fresh clampdown.
Last month the Pm said Plan B has “a number of different shots in the locker”.
He said: “You wouldn’t necessarily play them all at once, far from it, you would want to do things in a graduated way.”
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