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would ask the public to limit their journeys and only travel to a household waste and recycling centre if it is absolutely essential.”

Tips were accepting only bagged household waste. And some drivers were turned metre is enough not to increase transmission.

“And you are also unlikely to put yourself at increased risk if you pass someone in a transitory way who is less than a metre away, for example in a supermarket aisle.this away as recycling centres admitted only vehicles with number plates ending in even numbers to limit the scramble.

Figures from the third Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Report, which uses location data on users’ phones could help us plan a way forward. Supermarkets could let more people in than they do at the moment.

“It also means we should be opening gardening centres in a couple of weeks – anywhere where there is open space. People should to track where they are visiting, showed a steady increase in park visits as many people tire of the lockdown.

The Metropolitan Police yesterday released a video featuring emergency workers urging people to stay inside. be allowed to go to the beach if we can put in infrastructure to stop overcrowding. Councils should be taking the tape off the benches.we could get things to a more normal level much more quickly.”

Meanwhile, Professor Tim

Spector, from King’s College London, who has created an app to chart the course of the disease, said some parts of the UK now had next to no infection. He said: “We need to start opening up the country otherwise the numbers killed by cancer, heart disease, suicide and problems related to poverty and ill health will begin to dwarf the numbers killed by the virus.”

And yesterday one of the country’s top specialists in public health, Professor Allyson Pollock, called for children to return to school. She said: “Children will be paying the price for the tragic delays in public health policy that have led to an extended lockdown.

“They are being deprived of a right to education which is enshrined in law.”