Politicians are under pressure to reveal when current lockdown rules might be lifted

The UK will remain on lockdown for “at least” three more weeks, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab revealed at the Government’s daily coronavirus press conference on April 16.

Mr Raab, deputising while Prime Minister Boris Johnson convalesces at Chequers, asked the British public to be patient and said lifting social distancing restrictions too early would risk a deadly second wave of the virus.

“Any change to our social distancing measures now would risk a significant increase in the spread of the virus,” he said.

Mr Raab said that while there were signs of “light at the end of the tunnel”, the UK has not yet reached the peak of the virus, with the rate of infection likely to keep rising in some regions and continuing to spread in hospitals and care homes….



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