Queen Elizabeth has cancelled a pre-Christmas lunch along with her household as a precaution whereas circumstances of COVID-19 soar in Britain, a Buckingham Palace supply stated on Thursday (December 16).
“The choice is a precautionary one as it’s felt to place too many individuals’s Christmas preparations in danger if it went forward.
“Whereas there’s remorse that it’s cancelled, there’s a perception it’s the proper factor to do for all,” the supply stated.
England’s chief medical officer warned folks on Wednesday (December 15) to not combine with others except they need to within the run-up to Christmas after Britain recorded its most every day coronavirus circumstances for the reason that begin of the pandemic because the Omicron variant spreads.
Britain’s 95-year-old monarch spent the vast majority of the pandemic at Windsor Citadel to the west of London. Her husband Prince Philip died in April this 12 months after greater than seven a long time of marriage.