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14.06.2021 - 08:55 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Boris Johnson is facing a furious backlash from Tory MPs as he prepares to delay the final lifting of coronavirus restrictions for four weeks beyond June 21.
Senior ministers have now signed off a decision to delay the easing of lockdown until July 19, according to BBC reports.
The Prime Minister is expected to make an announcement on the decision today (June 14).
The move follows warnings from scientists that
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England’s reopening phase has been put on hold.
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Covid that would cost “thousands” of deaths, The Prime Minister was joined by Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer and Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser at the Downing Street press conference as they sought to buy time to double-dose more of the population before easing restrictions.Johnson said: “We can give the NHS a few more crucial weeks to get those remaining jabs into the arms of those who need them.” He added: “I think it is sensible to wait just a little longer.”The move
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Follow all the latest updates on our blog below. A delay to lockdown easing may also help break the link between infections and hospital admissions, a public health professor suggested.Professor Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, told LBC that the variant first identified in India now accounted for the majority of UK cases, but the death rate among people with this infection was low."You can see amongst people who were infected with this variant, the mortality rate was 0.7%, just 12
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