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🎊 Some good news!

🏙️ Health chiefs have boosted hopes of a June 21 reopening, saying the numbers are “looking very good” with just six deaths recorded from the Indian variant

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✅Experts are “increasingly confident” about the effectiveness of vaccines, the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency said.

The possibility of lifting all restrictions next month was “looking good” as long as people acted with caution

📈Increases in hospitalisations normally follow around two weeks after surges in cases - with deaths two weeks later.

Dr Harries said that, while it was “early days”, the signs were encouraging

“It’s really important that people continue to do hands, face, space and work from home, have their jabs and go for tests as well."

💉The success of vaccines show they are almost as effective against Indian variant

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/2…

Effective against the Indian variant after two doses:
🔺Pfizer 88%
🔺AstraZeneca 60%

Scientists said the AstraZeneca findings may underestimate its effectiveness, as rollout began later, and immunity builds with time

💉Follow vaccination progress, cases and deaths from across the UK and worldwide.

Charts, maps and data update with daily figures 👇
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❌Boris Johnson vowed on May 21 to give the public an update by the end of May on the results of a review into relaxing social distancing rules.

🔴🟠🟢How does the roadmap look?
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

🔴UPDATE: Boris Johnson is set to signal this week that Britain is on track to lift all remaining lockdown restrictions on June 21.

Ministers have step up discussions on the return of ordering drinks at the bar

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…