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A report has claimed that lockdown won’t be lifted until the UK reaches below 1,000 Covid cases per day. However, reports have also suggested that the country’s tourism and leisure sectors should be back to normal by July.
The head of the vaccine taskforce has said also that every UK adult should receive both doses of the Covid-19 jab by August.
This comes as the think tank, Reform, has warned that hospital waiting lists in England could more than double by April and may hit 10 million.
Meanwhile England’s children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, has called on Boris Johnson to put children at the centre of his plans to “level up” the country and “build back better” after the pandemic.
Lockdown ‘won’t be eased until cases drop below 1,000-a-day’, report claims
Lockdown restrictions will not be eased until daily coronavirus cases are below 1,000, while leisure and UK tourism could be “broadly normal” by July, according to reports.
The prime minister is expected to reveal his roadmap out of England’s third national lockdown on Monday, including details of how social-distancing measures will gradually be eased.
Chiara Giordano has more here:
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