Olis Johnson Call on people to exercise their new freedom with caution, because most mandatory lock-in restrictions United Kingdom It was finally lifted.
The social distancing rules that governed people’s lives in one form or another for more than a year finally ended one minute after Monday morning and morning.
Shops and public transportation are no longer mandatory to wear masks, gathering restrictions have been lifted, and home guidance work has ended.
Nightclubs, theaters and restaurants can be completely reopened, and bars are no longer limited to table service.
But as the Covid-19 case continues to soar, and the warning is issued again, saying that it is under pressure National Health Service The government has no mood to celebrate.
Mr. Johnson is spending so-called “Freedom Day” self-isolation in his official country residence checkers “Pinged” by NHS Test and Trace after contacting the Minister of Health Sajid Javid Who later tested positive for the virus.
Mr. Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak also met with Mr. Javid on Friday. They initially tried to circumvent the quarantine requirement, saying they would join the daily workplace testing program being piloted by the Cabinet Office.
However, because the public was generally angry about their “special treatment”, they were forced to turn around hastily, while thousands of people were forced to absent from work or go to school and stay at home.
Mr. Johnson will self-quarantine until July 26, which will include the last Prime Minister’s question before the adjournment of the House of Commons and the second anniversary of his tenth position, which is Saturday.
As new cases of the virus have exceeded the 50,000 per day mark, some scientists have expressed concern about ending the restriction with the Delta variant spreading so rapidly.
Professor Neil Ferguson (his model led to the first lockdown in March 2020) said that they may reach 200,000 people before the current pandemic wave finally reaches its peak.
He said this could result in 2,000 hospital admissions every day, leading to “major interruptions” and a further backlog of NHS services.
At the same time, as the number of off-duty people detected by the NHS Covid app continues to increase, companies warn of shortages on shelves.
To ease the pressure on the NHS, frontline staff in England were told that if their absence could result in a “significant risk of injury”, they could be exempted from isolation.
In a video message posted on his Twitter, Mr. Johnson defended the decision to continue the unlock — originally scheduled for June 21 according to the government’s roadmap — and urged people to be cautious.
“There is no doubt that the large-scale vaccination program has severely weakened the link between infection and hospitalization, and between infection and serious illness and death. This is a vital matter,” he said.
“So please, please, please be careful. Enter the next step with all the right caution and respect for others.”
However, the Labour Party leader Sir Kil Starmer accused the government of being “reckless”, saying that it was “wrong” to remove all remaining restrictions at once.
“We can already see that the infection rate is soaring, and we know what happens when hundreds of thousands of people are asked to self-quarantine,” he said.
“The prime minister basically put the entire country in the car, stepped on the gas pedal, and released the seat belt.”
Although the rules have been cancelled, government guidelines continue to urge people to proceed with caution, urge people to gather outdoors as much as possible, bars continue to provide table service, and employers encourage gradual return to the workplace.
Many shops and public transport operators still require people to wear masks during Transport for London’s “conditions of transport”.
At the same time, restrictions were relaxed in Scotland but not removed, and Chief Minister Nicolas Sturgeon also emphasized the need for caution.
Although it is still mandatory to wear masks in shops and public transportation, the entire country has dropped to the lowest level of the five-level system, and social distance has been reduced to only one meter.
Ms. Sturgeon said that it is “unwise” to talk about “Freedom Day” in the UK, and it is important to gradually relax restrictions.
Prior to this, Wales made a series of rule changes on Saturday, while Northern Ireland’s rules are expected to be relaxed starting on July 26.
