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Lockdown Lifting Set To Be Delayed By A Fortnight

UK

The front page of The Times notes that the roadmap for Britain's easing of lockdown restrictions could be delayed by a fortnight, with cabinet ministers described as "increasingly pessimistic" re: the matter, given the spread of the Indian COVID variant. One of the sources has suggested that the delay of the rollback could be somewhere between 2 weeks and 1 month. The source piece suggests that the announcement re: a delay could come on 14 June.

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