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Vaccine and testing certificates could be used in England to enable the economy to fully reopen and international travel to go ahead, the government has suggested.
Lockdown has been grim but Leicester has been in a suspended animation of near constant restrictions since the beginning of the pandemic.
The route out of lockdown has been decided and parts of life could start to feel a bit more normal – but when and how is it all going to happen?
Another 178 coronavirus-related deaths and 10,641 new cases have been recorded, while the number of people to have received a first jab has now passed 17.7 million.
The prime minister has said England is going to start “reclaiming our freedoms” – with all legal limits on people’s social contact set to end by 21 June.
The government has set out how it intends to turn the COVID-19 pandemic into a virus that is manageable in the long term.
The UK would face another “large wave” of coronavirus infections if lockdown restrictions were lifted too quickly and some measures will be needed beyond 2021, government scientists have warned.
Downing Street has rubbished claims the prime minister’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, has taken a central role in running the country.
The vaccines are good, but they’re not perfect. And that’s the peril in lifting lockdown too quickly.
