 Welcome back you're so watching the breakfast and plus TV Africa before we look at the other issue earlier advertised let's look at the very important subject matter of COVID-19 of course the global community has been doing everything they can to protect their citizens especially with the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus so the mandatory face coverings in public places and other COVID rules have now been dropped by the United Kingdom starting from today Prime Minister Boris Johnson had announced that when he appeared before the parliament last week a Prime Minister also said the government would immediately drop its advice for people to work from home and that's a a major one it's advice for people to work from home the Prime Minister said England was reverting to plan A due to boosters and how people had followed plan B measures he also told MPs scientists believed that the Omicron wave had peaked nationally and we're now being joined live from London by resident of Thames Mead London Mr. in Sikagabasequere it was uh Mr. Amos good morning to you thanks for joining us on the breakfast and plus TV Africa morning thank you for having me this is a major announcement by the Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson is this coming from a place of facts do you think and the real situation on the ground or is he trying to buy some public public support based on his travels of course the inquiry into his conduct and the conduct of his office during the lockdown absolutely I think the whole rhetoric of the whole thing is basically trying to buy him some public support by removing the masks and if you asked me and lately these are showed in the last time that the compliance levels for wearing masks in public places and coming out areas have dropped by every major peak for that what that means is the level of compliance has dropped so for me how would this make any sort of difference I think it's just a gimmick of his to try and buy some sort of public support but I think it's a little bit too early because if you look at the rates of infection particularly in London where it leads it is actually plateaued it's not really it has not actually dipped it's just sort of a little bit of a dip a little bit but it's not something that you could trigger an action shot as removing the mask so for me I think a little bit too early okay so so what are your thoughts on this liberty it feels like it's a liberty to not respecting this protocol do you think it's okay with the fact that this is you know a serious global concern yeah there's so many facts to be number one the wearing of the masks many organizations have come out right after Boris Johnson announced to say that well the guidance from wearing masks has been removed but we strongly advise the use of masks in coming out areas we've got so many transport companies you've got so many retailers coming out to tell you that they have not completely accepted the embrace the ideal removal of masks entirely so that tells you that people are taking them the PM's word with a little pinch of salt because there is no basis there are no scientific basis for him completely teaching the mask as it were. Mr Quarell what exactly is the difference between the plan A and plan B measures you know of course we're hearing that he Boris Johnson is saying the public had successfully followed plan B measures we've entered the plan A what's the difference for those of you who are there yeah for us it's it's it's very massive but it's not really clear but it's massive for instance we are legally required to work from home during the plan B that is no longer requirement so that is a big big difference this hospitality industry will actually be jumping up and down right now by that announcement because that means that they can go about their businesses without any sort of restrictions in place or access complete access to all sort of clubs, nightclubs, pubs and all that so the basically you can you can tell you can understand the basis for this decision it's purely business and not really scientific if you ask me it's purely driven by business so he's been short from beginning that he's listened to the business side of things a little bit more than the yeah the siege as it were so yes I completely agree with that fact so on second abasic do you see people complying would you be wearing the nose max what do you really think are people already you know taking that to consideration not working from home among orders for instance I work from one and but when I have to go to the hybrid week I currently do sort of what's it called hybrid so you work a few days in the office and a few days at home the guidance for wearing masks in your has not changed the guidance for wearing masks in the bus stays public transport the trade the rails has not changed people still wear masks so exactly how does this impact the life and culture of people it has little or no impact and compliance levels have naturally dropped because people have seems to be compliant with wearing marks generally so that will not suddenly change but I don't think that it will have any sort of massive difference because to be honest are you still wearing masks people if you notice the compliance levels has to do a lot with the age brackets as well but all that you are the more likely you have to comply with wearing marks the younger you are for instance you're talking about the guys in the millenials for instance they don't give a client who's about wearing masks generally so but do you think do you also think that this might you know go well with some of the what you want to call it the conspiracy theories around especially in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole as regards the entire because a lot of people still think that you know the COVID-19 and Omicron is just a hoax and so with this decision and with the policy coming from the United Kingdom the system might just really go to justify that COVID doesn't really exist it's just some political power play here well the conspiracy theorist sadly it's disappointing because for me I've had close friends I've had colleagues in Nigeria I've had a close friend from Nigeria die of COVID case all because we don't believe that COVID is real this is what most stations should make people understand and the fact that we don't have you know sophisticated healthcare says to be able to track monitor these things does not rule out the fact that COVID does not it is real people have had it people have been hospitalized for it people have died for it so died with it and so we need to we need to distance people from thinking that COVID is some sort of conspiracy to to I don't know what I don't know what to call it it's the same drive that prevents people from taking vaccinations as well because they don't believe that it's real so they don't believe that the vaccination is meant for it is alive it is alive COVID is real and this message needs to be passed across to African countries and nations a large okay thank you very much it's quite interesting in one sentence what's the reaction of the public basically to this move in one sentence please any different okay all right all right thank you very much used one word I appreciate that in Sikah Kaba Sekwere is joining us live from things made in London United Kingdom giving us analysis of the latest move by the United Kingdom government to relax on the restrictions please in the public as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in that part of the world thank you very much for your time merci we have to move on on the breakfast this morning yes hopefully all right we do appreciate your time and hopefully when we return we head straight to the third conversation where we look at the issue of the cost of fail subsidy for 2022