Boris Johnson has extended lockdown by four weeks to vaccinate more Brits and prevent "thousands more deaths". He says July 19th will be a "terminus date", but notes that a "new variant" could warrant further delays.
The Prime Minister will have to put his updated lockdown roadmap dates to a vote in the Commons before the end of June – a vote which he will likely win, but not without a swell of opposition from his own MPs.
All adults in Wales have been offered the first dose of a Covid vaccine, and zero deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported on 10 of the 13 first days of June. So why the slow unlock?
The PM has yet to formally announce a four-week delay to the end of lockdown in England, but Government figures have already hinted that restrictions could be extended beyond July 19th and into the month of August.
Since the beginning of 2021, excess deaths have been running lower – often much lower – than official COVID-19 deaths in Europe. The latter measure is now substantially overstating the pandemic's death toll.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Boris will definitely announce that the end of lockdown will be delayed tomorrow evening. He's going to spin this as a necessary delay to ensure the end of the lockdown is "irreversible". Yeah, right.
