Tough lockdown restrictions could last 'beyond Easter' and the PM is planning for families to meet up over the holiday, it has been reported.
According to reports, ministers warned that with the exception of schools, there is unlikely to be any relaxation of the the current rules by the review point - which was supposed to be in the middle of next month.
Originally, the current lockdown was expected to ease on February 22 with schools opening and England returning to a tier system.
Boris Johnson said when he announced the lockdown: “I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term and starting, cautiously, to move regions down the tiers.” He later admitted 'a lot of things have to go right' for
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