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14.06.2021 - 11:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Boris Johnson will hold a televised Downing Street coronavirus briefing later today.
The Prime Minister will provide an update on the pandemic and announce the long-awaited decision on the June 21 lockdown easement.
Reports suggest Mr Johnson will announce that the final lifting of lockdown restrictions will be delayed by four weeks amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant.
However it is currently unclear
Scottish independence referendum has been ruled out until after the next general election in May 2024, Michael Gove has said. The Cabinet Office minister announced that Boris Johnson is keen to focus on coronavirus recovery rather than having to deal with another vote.
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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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