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PM Due To Outline Steps To Ending COVID-19 Lockdown At Bottom Of Hour

UK

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to deliver a statement to the House of Commons at just after 1530GMT (1030ET, 1630CET) outlining gov't steps to unwinding COVID-19 restrictions in England.

  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMnqZmM7Sxs
  • The plan is believed to involve the very slow removal of restrictions, with several weeks gap between each subsequent step of allowing greater freedoms.
  • Several journalists have picked up on comments from senior officials in recent days indicating that even with significant proportions of the population vaccinated this still may not be enough to ease restrictions substantially.
  • Tom Newton Dunn of Times Radio tweeted earlier "As one senior figure put it, "you cannot vaccinate your way out of this". Which is quite a sea change from the Govt narrative of a few months ago, and - ministers hope - will force Tory CRG rebels to rethink their timetable demands."

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