UK to set out 'cautious and prudent' route out of lockdown on Monday: PM Johnson

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a vial of an Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, during his visit at a vaccination centre at Cwmbran Stadium in Cwmbran, south Wales, Britain February 17, 2021. Geoff Caddick/Pool via REUTERS

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would outline a "cautious and prudent" route out of lockdown on Monday, and until then he urged people not to pay too much attention to speculation.

"We'll be setting out what we can on Monday 22nd about the way ahead and it'll be based firmly on a cautious and prudent approach to coming out of lockdown in such a way as to be irreversible," he told broadcasters.

"People are coming up with theories about what we're going to do and what we're going to say and about rates of infection and so on. I would just advise everybody just wait, we will try to say as much as we can on Monday."

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives thumbs up during a visit to a coronavirus vaccination centre at the Health and Well-being Centre in Orpington, South-East of London, Britain February 15, 2021. Jeremy Selwyn/Pool via REUTERS

(Reporting by Sarah Young and Paul Sandle; editing by James Davey)