The UK government has announced that the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the Coronavirus will remain in place for three more weeks.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab made the announcement yesterday night during daily No 10 briefing saying that after a review they concluded that relaxing the measures now would risk harming public health and the economy.
He said “The worst thing we can do now is to ease up too soon … so the current restrictions will remain in place. There is light at the end of the tunnel but we are now at both a delicate and a dangerous stage in this pandemic. If we rush to relax the measures that we have in place we would risk wasting all the sacrifices and all the progress that has been made. That would risk a quick return to another lockdown with all the threat to life that a second peak to the virus would bring and all the economic damage that a second lockdown would carry.