The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that Britain is getting close to the end of its COVID-19 restrictions after a …
The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that Britain is getting close to the end of its COVID-19 restrictions after a tumultuous year of strict government lockdowns. “If we can’t reopen our society in the next few weeks when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and the school holidays, we must ask ourselves ‘when will we be able to reopen?’” Johnson said at a press briefing at Downing Street, per CNBC. CNBC reported: All remaining businesses that are currently closed, like nightclubs, would be allowed to reopen and social-distancing rules would also end. Johnson reiterated that Covid will become a virus that we learn to live with as we already do with flu, conceding that a reopening would likely lead to more deaths. “It has grown ever clearer that these vaccines are indeed successful with the majority of those admitted to hospital unvaccinated.” As reported by the BBC, “Face masks will no longer be legally required and distancing rules will be scrapped at the final stage of England’s Covid lockdown roadmap, Boris Johnson has confirmed.” “The rule of six inside private homes will be removed and work-from-home guidance abolished as 16 months of on-off restrictions on daily life end. The PM said he expected the final step would go ahead as planned on 19 July,” the outlet added. The guidance will be confirmed on July 12th after an analysis of the most recent data. The prime minister said, “If we don’t go ahead now when we’ve clearly done so much with the vaccination programme to break the link… when would we go ahead?” He added, “We run the risk of either opening up at a very difficult time when the virus has an edge, has an advantage, in the cold months, or again putting everything off to next year.
