日增确诊超20万，英国称无需收紧防疫政策，并取消入境旅行前检测要求

据《每日电讯报》1月5日报道，英国将放宽部分检测规定，以缩短隔离期，确保更多人能够重返工作岗位。该报表示，需要隔离的人员造成的员工短缺已成为“和新冠病毒本身一样大的问题”。

The shortages have caused trash collections to be delayed in some places, trains to be cancelled, and some hospitals to suspend non-urgent surgery. Schools have also been hit hard, with around one employee in five missing for this week's start of term. The paper said asymptomatic people who are shown to have COVID-19 in a lateral flow test will not have to take a follow-up PCR test, something that had delayed the start of isolation periods and therefore prolonged them. People who have symptoms will, however, still need to take a follow-up PCR test.

员工短缺导致一些地方的垃圾收集延迟，列车取消，一些医院暂停非紧急手术，学校也受到了沉重打击，本周开学时五分之一的员工“失踪”。该报称，无症状的人若已接受横向流动测试则不必采取后续PCR试验，而有症状的人仍然需要进行后续PCR检测。

In an attempt to ensure workers do not isolate unnecessarily, London has also said 100,000 key staff in food processing, transportation, and border services will get daily lateral flow tests, the Guardian newspaper reported.

据《卫报》报道，为了确保工人不会不必要地隔离，伦敦还表示，食品加工、运输和边境服务部门的10万名关键员工将每天接受横向流动测试。

Johnson also urged people to get vaccinated and thanked those “who assisted in this extraordinary national effort over Christmas” in the vaccination drive. But he said around 9 million people have not yet had a booster, and that some 90 percent of people in intensive care with COVID-19 have not had their booster shot, and up to 60 percent had not had any vaccination at all.

约翰逊还敦促人们接种疫苗，并感谢那些在疫苗接种活动中“在圣诞节期间帮助国家做出这一非凡努力”的人。但是他说大约有900万人还没接种疫苗加强针，大约90%的COVID-19重症监护人员没有接种疫苗加强针，多达60%的人根本没有接种疫苗。

Asked if further restrictions will be imposed in England, Johnson said the situation will be monitored very closely and he “can’t rule anything out”.

当被问及英国是否会实施进一步的限制时，约翰逊表示，他将密切关注局势，且“不能排除任何可能性”。