Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Ministers are pushing ahead with a major easing of lockdown on Monday despite concerns over the Indian variant of coronavirus.
Boris Johnson announced they were sticking to the roadmap to allow mixing indoors and greater physical contact in England as scientists warned the strain could be 50 per cent more transmissible than the Kent variant.
Health minister Edward Argar said on Saturday that the Government was acting 'coolly' and 'calmly' in continuing with Step Three from May 17.
Mr Argar defended the decision, telling BBC Breakfast: "All the evidence so far suggests there is no evidence of increased severity of illness or that it evades the vaccine. “So,
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