Cardinal Vincent Nichols has urged Boris Johnson not to impose further anti-Covid restrictions on churches in England and Wales.
The Archbishop of Westminster insisted that churches were already stringent in taking precautions against the spread of the virus, saying they were “not places where we spread the virus”.
The plea from Cardinal Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, came as the Prime Minister considered whether new restrictions were needed to slow down the spread of the omicron variant of the virus amid record numbers of infections.
