lockdown could be pushed back even further, Matt Hancock has warned.Speaking to MPs on Thursday, the Health Secretary said: "My assessment is that it is too early now to say yet whether we can take the full step forward on the 21st of June. "I desperately want us to.
We will make a formal assessment ahead of the 14th of June as to what step we can take on the 21st."June 21, unofficially dubbed Liberation Day or Freedom Day by some, was the date flagged by the government for all existing Covid restrictions to be lifted including unlimited indoor gatherings and the reopening of nightclubs and full sports venues.But the emergence of the more-contagious Indian variant in recent weeks has plunged that date into uncertainty.
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