Tag: Unlock

There is now no legal limit on how far Brits can travel for trips at the countryside or coastline. Many are expected to make the most of the "mini-heatwave" forecasted this week by going to the beach!

No surge as schools open in the UK, no surge in free states like Texas and Florida – is anyone in Government watching the real world or are they too busy gawping at the huge bell curves in Neil Ferguson's latest model?

Covid numbers continue to fall in Texas more than two weeks after the state lifted its mask mandate and fully reopened businesses, in a move that President Biden dismissed as "Neanderthal thinking".

The UK is ahead of the US in its efforts to vaccinate its population, but while Brits remain confined under severe lockdown restrictions, much of America is returning to "business as usual".

The Prime Minister has said there is "no change" to the next steps of the roadmap out of lockdown, despite the expected slowdown of the vaccine rollout next month.

The vaccine rollout's slowdown must not delay our return to freedom. All over-50s will still have been offered a vaccination by the end of the month, by which point Matt Hancock previously said he would "cry freedom".

"There’ll be a day when we’re together again, A day when we laugh, smile, and hug our friends. There’ll be a day when we can all be free, To think and speak, to believe and to be."

Much of America is only just starting to emerge from months under lockdown, but in Florida people are living their lives as close to normal as currently seems possible. Plus, cases and hospitalisations continue to fall.

The Government is facing legal action over its plan to keep hospitality venues closed for weeks longer than "non-essential" shops. Challengers say there is “no evidence or justification" for this decision.

In January, Grant Shapps said that if the Government did not fully unlock the country by early March, he would stand "on the barricades to get our freedoms back". This date has passed, but Mr Shapps has lost his nerve.