BREAKING: PM admits cases and hospitalisations are rising but suggests as vaccinations rise we must learn to live with a certain cost of Covid-19.
"We must reconcile ourselves, sadly, to more deaths from Covid".
"We must reconcile ourselves, sadly, to more deaths from Covid".
"We have to balance the risks" says PM of the cost of Covid vs the cost of restrictions.
"If we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks then we must ask ourselves when will we be able to return to normal?"
He says it's safer to reopen now than in winter.
"If we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks then we must ask ourselves when will we be able to return to normal?"
He says it's safer to reopen now than in winter.
From July 19th:
- No more legal limits on numbers meeting
- No more limited visits to care homes
- All businesses can reopen including nightclubs etc
- No more 1m rule
- No more mandatory face masks, but optional in high risk places
- No more bubbles/contact isolation in school
- No more legal limits on numbers meeting
- No more limited visits to care homes
- All businesses can reopen including nightclubs etc
- No more 1m rule
- No more mandatory face masks, but optional in high risk places
- No more bubbles/contact isolation in school
- No more work from home rule
- No more quarantine from amber list countries
Essentially the near complete abolishing of all restrictions on life as we've known it (to various degrees) since March 2020.
- No more quarantine from amber list countries
Essentially the near complete abolishing of all restrictions on life as we've known it (to various degrees) since March 2020.
Patrick Vallance says the graphs below show hospitalisations and deaths no longer strongly linked to the number of cases, though hospitalisations are rising "steeply" in some parts of the country.
"It's a weakened link, but not a completely broken link."
"It's a weakened link, but not a completely broken link."
N.B. All of these measures apply to *England only*, though clearly on issues like mask wearing there will need to be cross-border conversations with Scotland, Wales and NI.
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