Johnson is ‘hopeful’ UK can avoid another pandemic lockdown
The Peninsula
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the U.K. is on track to lift pandemic restrictions entirely over the next three months and is "hopeful” he will not need to put the country into lockdown again.
With infection rates at their lowest in six months, there is nothing in the data so far to suggest the government will need to keep restrictions in place for longer than planned, the premier said at a televised press conference Monday. But Johnson and his chief pandemic advisers warned that the biggest threat to the U.K.’s return to normality is that new, vaccine-resistant strains of coronavirus emerge and be imported from other countries.More Related News