Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the easing of lockdown has been delayed by four weeks.
This means that Step Four of the Government’s Covid Roadmap will end no earlier than July 19.
He told a Downing Street press conference that the spread of the Delta variant meant “we have obviously faced a very difficult choice”.
He said: “We now have the chance over the next four weeks to save many thousands of lives by vaccinating millions more.”
Mr Johnson added: “We can simply keep going with all of Step 4 on June 21, even though there is a real possibility that the virus will outrun the vaccines and that thousands more deaths would ensue which could otherwise have been avoided.
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