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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Jessica Sansome

When is the next government announcement on UK lockdown?

The UK has now spent more than three months in lockdown in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus.

But as announced back in May, the government has a three stage plan to get the country out of the strict measures.

The UK first went into lockdown on March 23 when we were told by the Prime Minister that we were only allowed to leave the house for one of few reasons.

At the end of April, Boris Johnson said the country was "past the peak" of the coronavirus pandemic and a couple of weeks later unveiled the government's 'road' map to easing the current which began on May 13.

Since then, the UK has entered stage two of the plan, which began on June 1 and included children returning to school and the reopening of non-essential shops.

The government, and the country, is now working towards step three of the plan which could see pubs, restaurants and other businesses such as hair salons reopening on July 4 at the earliest.

Therefore the next review of lockdown is expected to take place on June 25 – four weeks after the last review, which took place on May 28.

Previously the review has taken place on a three-weekly basis but the Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced at the start of June that this will be upped to every four weeks.

On Monday (June 22) Mr Johnson met with his top Cabinet colleagues and scientists to discuss the plan to restart the hospitality sector as well as well as on the loosening the two-metre social-distancing rule in England.

He is expected to expand 'support bubbles' for people in England following on from the previous announcement on June 10 that some people would be allowed to start socialising with another household under new government guidelines.

It comes as the coroanvirus alert level was downgraded from four to three - meaning that transmission of the virus is no longer considered to be "high or rising exponentially" but instead in "general circulation".

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