Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed a return to normality from the coronavirus restrictions imposed on Britons remains “some way off”.
The PM claimed on Monday that some measures to counter Covid could remain in place even after all adults have been offered a vaccine.
The Government announced that pub gardens and shops can open on April 12 but told people not to book overseas summer holidays yet because border reopenings could happen later than the proposed date of May 17.
In a major U-turn, HM’s Government is now also considering the mass use of Covid status certification checks, described as Covid passports saying these documents are likely to become “a feature of our lives” until the pandemic stops.
At a press conference on Monday night, Prime Minister Johnson said: “If things continue to go well I do think that, for many people in many ways, life will begin to get back to at least some semblance of normality. But we’re still some way off there. We’ve got to be guided by the data and we’ve got to make sure that we follow the roadmap. That’s the way to get there.”
Prof Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, said: “I don’t think there’s any surprise that it [Covid] is still with us now, nor is it going to magically disappear over the next few months. This virus will be with us for the foreseeable future. We will have significant problems with Covid for the foreseeable future, and I don’t think we should pretend otherwise.”
HM’s Government state Covid status checks could “play a role” in reopening theatres and nightclubs as well as mass events such as festivals or sports matches, but they should “never be required” for “essential public services, public transport and essential shops”.
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