Commerce union leaders have warned No10 it dangers one other 'winter of chaos' if it doesn't instantly undertake its Covid Plan B.
A joint assertion from unions together with the TUC, Usdaw, Unison, Unite, the GMB and Aslef representing 3million employees demanded the Authorities herald insurance policies together with the return of home-working and face mask-wearing.
The unions - which symbolize employees in retail, transport, healthcare, by which working from house is difficult - stated there are already 'lots of' of Covid outbreaks in workplaces.
It comes as a Authorities scientific adviser stated he's 'very fearful' there will likely be one other ' lockdown Christmas'.
Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the New and Rising Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), stated case numbers and loss of life charges are presently 'unacceptable'.
Britain's every day Covid hospitalisations yesterday breached 1,000 for the primary time in six weeks.
However SAGE scientists insisted it was 'extremely unlikely' that the NHS could be overwhelmed by the virus this winter even with out restrictions.
Boris Johnson yesterday resisted calls from well being leaders for tighter restrictions regardless of the rising ranges of infections.
Well being Secretary Sajid Javid stated new instances may attain 100,000 a day however Downing Avenue insisted there was nonetheless spare capability within the NHS and that Plan B would solely be activated if it got here below 'important strain'.
Boris Johnson insists there's 'completely nothing to point' there will likely be one other lockdown this winter
The joint assertion stated: 'All of us need to beat Covid as soon as for all and to keep away from additional lockdowns.
'However with out decisive motion now, we threat sleepwalking into one other winter of chaos.
'With lots of of Covid outbreaks at workplaces being reported to well being authorities every week, occasions really feel ominously paying homage to final winter.
'The federal government should act now to scale back the unfold of Covid. Failure to take action will threat public well being, frontline providers and the economic system.'
The plea comes as Authorities scientists warned
Professor Openshaw, of Imperial Faculty London, instructed BBC Breakfast: 'I am very fearful that we will have one other lockdown Christmas if we do not act quickly.
'We all know that with public well being measures the time to behave is straight away. There is not any level in delaying.
'When you do delay then you must take much more stringent actions later. The immediacy of response is completely very important if you are going to get issues below management.
'All of us actually, actually desire a fantastic household Christmas the place we will all get again collectively.
'If that is what we would like, we have to get these measures in place now with a view to get transmission charges proper down in order that we will truly get collectively and see each other over Christmas.'
Prof Openshaw stated it's 'unacceptable to be letting this run in the intervening time', including: 'I feel the hospitals in lots of components of the nation are barely coping truly.
'Speaking to folks on the entrance line, I feel it is simply not sustainable to maintain going at this charge.
'I feel it is simply unacceptable to see the variety of deaths that we have in the intervening time.
'At one stage final week there have been 180 deaths in a single day. That's simply too many deaths. We appear to have obtained used to the concept that we will have many, many individuals dying of Covid and that I feel is simply not the case.
'We have to decelerate transmission and actually redouble efforts to get everybody vaccinated and all of the boosters out, after which we will open up once more.'
Prof Openshaw was requested what he would say to individuals who have considerations about what they'll do to cease the unfold of the virus within the occasion of the Authorities not reintroducing measures.
SAGE insists NHS WILL cope and admissions are 'unlikely' to succeed in January peak even WITHOUT Plan B
He instructed the programme: 'I feel take issues into your personal fingers. Do not wait essentially for Authorities coverage.
'I am very, very reluctant now to enter crowded areas as a result of I do know that roughly one in 60 folks in a crowded area are going to have the virus.
'When you can, cycle to work, do not go on public transport.
'I feel do every little thing doable in your management to attempt to cut back transmission. Do not look ahead to the Authorities to vary coverage.
'The earlier all of us act, the earlier we will get this transmission charge down, and the higher the prospect of getting a Christmas with our households.'
Elsewhere, the World Well being Organisation warned the vaccine alone will be unable to elevate the world out of the pandemic.
Spokesperson Margaret Harris instructed Occasions Radio: 'The issue is specializing in one factor, the vaccine is not going to get us out of this.
'We actually should do different measures.
'We've got obtained to be critical about not crowding. We've got nonetheless obtained to be carrying the masks, while you're indoors significantly.'
Scientific advisers have instructed the Authorities it should guarantee Plan B restrictions to deal with coronavirus might be 'quickly' deployed if wanted.
Consultants on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) stated, in minutes of a gathering revealed on Friday, {that a} additional enormous spike in infections as seen in January was 'more and more unlikely', as specialists predicted a collection of broader, flatter peaks because the virus continues to unfold.
Nevertheless, in its assembly dated October 14, Sage warned measures from the Authorities's Plan B would have biggest impact if introduced in in unison and earlier on relatively than later.
Scientists are in favour of a comparatively light-touch strategy, carried out earlier to make a distinction, with Sage saying the 'reintroduction of working-from-home steerage is prone to have the best particular person influence on transmission out of the proposed measures' in Plan B.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak instructed The Occasions the nation couldn't return to 'important financial restrictions' and that the vaccine rollout meant this was not needed, whereas Boris Johnson additionally stated on Friday that one other lockdown was not deliberate.
UK Hospitality CEO Kate Nicholls warned that companies won't survive one other winter of lockdown restrictions.
Requested on Occasions Radio if she thought companies would survive if the Authorities goes forward with Plan B, she stated: 'No I do not, bluntly. We've got already misplaced 12,000 companies.'
She stated that when restrictions are in place 'customers do keep at house, they do not exit and socialise'.
