Boris Johnson says he is "confident" his roadmap out of lockdown won't be slowed down - despite the detection of cases of the Brazillian strain of Covid-19.
And he defended the Government's border quarantine measures, saying they had been introduced "as fast as we could" The Prime Minister told reporters: "We have got one of the toughest border regimes anywhere in the world for stopping people coming in to this country who may have variants of concern." And he said a "massive effort" was under way to prevent new coronavirus variants spreading.
Mr Johnson said: "If you look at what we have done in the case of the South African variant, a massive effort went in there. "The same is going on now to contain any spread of the Brazilian
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