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Although the Step 3 for a four Government more weeks, with has decided the indoor rule of to remain at six, and limits on Step 3 of the numbers for road map for sports events, easing cinemas and coronavirus pubs, set to restrictions for continue. four more weeks, there will be a Working from home where limited relaxation of rules in some possible will still be officially areas sooner than July 19. advised by the Government,
But what has changed following nightclubs will stay shuttered Boris Johnson’s announcement, and legal limits on social what will stay the same and why? contact will remain in place. ■ ■
The cap of 30 guests for Modelling suggests that easing wedding ceremonies and lockdown on June 21 would receptions will be lifted, the have led hospital admissions Prime Minister has confirmed. to reach the heights of the first
As with current rules for peak in March 2020, as the Delta funerals, the number of variant is estimated to be 40 to attendees will be determined by 80 per cent more transmissible how many people the venue can than the Alpha strain. safely accommodate with social Currently there are around distancing measures in place. 8,000 new cases a day, the
However, food and drink highest since February. must be ordered, served and In around a third of England, consumed by guests seated at cases are doubling every week. a table, and dancing indoors is Experts feared that going still not permitted, unless it is a ahead with Step 4 would have married couple’s first dance. put unsustainable pressure on
the health service. ■
It was also confirmed that those aged 40 and over will now have their second doses brought forward from the planned 12-week interval to eight weeks.
This was previously announced for the over-50s and the clinically vulnerable, who were offered their second dose earlier in a bid to dampen the impact of the Delta variant. ■
While the delay of the June 21 end to restrictions will come as a blow to many, the Government is not moving backwards with its plan. England will remain at
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