"We still don't have the infection rate down as far as we need to" The UK lockdown currently in place due to the coronavirus pandemic has been extended for at least another three weeks.
Speaking at the daily Number 10 briefing today (April 16), Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab revealed that a review had concluded relaxing the measures currently in place would risk harming public health and the economy. “We still don’t have the infection rate down as far as we need to,” he said.
Raab, who is deputising for Boris Johnson as he recovers from the coronavirus, said: “Any change to our social distancing measures now would risk a significant increase in the spread of the virus. “That would threaten a second peak of the virus and substantially
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