Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda The UK's four Chief Medical Officers have agreed the coronavirus alert level should be downgraded from level four to level three, meaning the “epidemic is in general circulation”.
The announcement comes just hours ahead of a Downing Street press conference later led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which will outline the next stage of easing of lockdown restrictions a week today on May 17.
In a statement from the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales as well as NHS England national medical director Stephen Powys said: “Following advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and in the light of the most recent data, the UK chief medical officers and NHS
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