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Coronavirus live: expected delay in UK lockdown easing backed in poll; G7 pledges more than 1bn vaccines

Follow all the latest updates on the pandemic as a UK poll shows public support for a delay in the easing of restrictions

The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has suggested that remaining Covid restrictions will only be lifted when the all the adult population has been offered a vaccination at the end of July.

Speaking on the BBC Andrew Marr show he said: “The critical thing is to get as many of the adult population double vaccinated as possible and we’ve always said we were aiming to do that by the end of July. At that point we can go irreversibly through the gears and open up in a way that we haven’t been able to do to date. The crucial overarching immediate objective is to get those second doses dispensed.”

The crucial thing in the four tests that we set at the outset of the roadmap … is the link between transmission of the virus and any variants and hospitalizations. We know we’ve made great progress in weakening the link between transmission and hospitalisation. The question is whether we’ve severed and broken it. We’re looking at the data in real time and the PM will set out the positions tomorrow.

The key point is we want to move out of locked down irreversibly. I think the vast majority of people in the country, but also parliament, will understand that. We don’t want to yo-yo back in and out of measures… It’s that critical link between transmission and hospitalizations … which is probably the most sensitive right now.

G7 countries will provide 1 billion vaccine doses over the next year and work with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase the contribution over months to come, according to an almost finalised draft of the communique seen by Reuters.

The draft said:

The commitments since we last met in February 2021 including here in Carbis Bay provide for 1 billion doses over the next year.

We will work together with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase this contribution over the months to come.

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