A Welsh minister has suggested that Covid rules could be downgraded to “advice” in the coming weeks, just as is expected to happen in England on July 19th. But the Welsh Conservative opposition says that more clarity is needed on the timeline of unlocking. BBC News has the story.
[Welsh minister] Mick Antoniw said Wales was “moving to a stage where we are having increasing normality” but that ministers and officials would evaluate data ahead of the next review on July 15th. …With no date set in Wales, the Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government of being “stuck in lockdown mode”.
Responding to reports on Sunday that England will move into a period without legal restrictions, where the public will have to exercise “personal responsibility”, Andrew RT Davies MS, the leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, tweeted: “It’s time for Welsh Government to provide clarity on Wales’s route to normality.”
Counsel General Mr Antoniw told the BBC’s Politics Wales programme the Welsh Government’s “current thinking is that we have obviously an increase in the level of infections, but we have less hospitalisation out of that”.
“We want to maximise the vaccination rates still further, and then around the 15th or 16th of July, we’ll have a review, and we’ll consider what further easings can be taken within the data that we actually have,” he said.
“Setting a date has its own problems because, if you’re saying you want to achieve these certain things on this particular date… it is still always dependent on what the latest information is in respect of the infection rates.
“We are certainly moving in the direction of a much greater normality.
“But the pandemic is going to be with us for some time,” he added.
There have only been minor changes to the rules in Wales since June 7th after the first minister announced a pause in a bid to reduce daily hospital admissions and allow time to vaccinate more people.
Ministers had considered permitting more indoor mixing, allowing more people to attend indoor events and reopening ice skating rinks, before deciding to hold off.
In Wales, people are currently able to meet in private homes if they are in an extended household with a fixed set of other homes, unlike in England where six people from any household can meet.
Nightclubs remain closed, as they do across the U.K., while limits on social distancing and how many people can meet outside remain.
The restrictions will be reviewed the week starting July 12th, with any further lifting due to be announced by the first minister towards the end of the week.
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I was looking straight at Reeves as Hunt was speaking and this woman has the steely stare of pure hatred and evil. She listened intently to Hunt’s words while staring at him like he was Ian Huntly or Harold Shipman.———This disgusting woman knows that 20 times more people die of cold than heat and while Miliband causes fuel prices to rise with his eco tyranny, this woman completes the slaying of older people by removing the heating allowance. ——This is MURDER.
She’s as ugly as sin and as thick as mince.
And ‘vaccinating’ them with mRNA injections.
“Nigel Farage is the only British politician that Trump likes.”
Correction…. Nigel Farage is the only British politician that ANYBODY likes!
Net Zero is proving to be a catastrophe for Australia, Germany and California as well as for this country. The sheer stupidity of people like Miliband is astounding. I’m not so optimistic that the current government will move away from it. We may have to wait for the near-complete collapse of the electricity supply and a Reform government.
On Toby:
Labour would not want the freedom of speach act because their own people already control all the institutions so they get to speak whenever they want. What they have just done is to endorse the denial of freedom to their opponents, by which I do not mean Tories.
Tories did not delay or cancel the Equality Act because they wanted it. Since Blair as during his time they have taken up Labour policies as their own across the board.
There is no pint speculating how a future Tory administration could be more robust about these things. First, there won’t be another Tory government and second, if I’m wrong snd somehow they defeat the odds, they will accept all Labour has done by then and add to it.
What so many criticise as Tory omissions or oversights are, in truth, the Tories doing what they wanted.
It is the Civil Service that run things which is why there appears no difference between the two.