主题：【原创】新冠疫情发展的不负责推测 -- 菜根谭

No new measures but situation under constant review

Boris Johnson has just been speaking after this afternoon's cabinet meeting.

He says ministers agree the current situation is "extremely difficult".

"The arguments either way are finely balanced," he says noting that cases of Omicron are "surging and hospitalisations are rising quite steeply in London".

He says that the government will keep data under "constant review" and that "we will have to reserve the possibility of taking further action to protect the public and our NHS".

"We won't hesitate to take action," he says and urges the public to exercise caution and get vaccinated.

"It could not be more urgent," he adds.

Asked what kind of measures the government will take he replies: "We're looking at all kinds of things... we will rule nothing out."