UK health secretary says England will not make decision on further unlocking scheduled for 21 June until a week before
- Johnson ‘must think again on plans to relax Covid rules’
Turkey will start easing its strict lockdown on Monday by allowing movement during the day while keeping overnight and weekend curfews in place, the Interior Ministry said in a directive on Sunday.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey would gradually ease out of a full lockdown imposed two-and-a half weeks ago, and lift restrictions more significantly in June.
Matt Hancock also signalled the government would be prepared to implement a local lockdown in Bolton if one was needed to protect people.
He replied “we do not rule that out” when asked about the prospect of specific areas having different restrictions compared to the rest of the country to deal with the risk posed by Covid-19 variants, telling Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday:
The approach we’re taking in Bolton and Blackburn is to absolutely pile in testing and vaccinations to try to get on top of this.
When we had an outbreak of the South African variant in south London last month we put in a huge amount, hundreds of thousands of tests in surge testing – people came forward in their droves across Southwark and Lambeth and Wandsworth, and we got that under control.
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