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UK is close to turning the corner in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, said UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
The senior Cabinet minister was defending the government’s roadmap out of the lockdown, which is now set to ease further on May 17, with June 21 set as the date for a near complete end to lockdown rules.
I know that people are hankering to go a bit faster but actually we feel vindicated at taking steady steps out of the lockdown is the smart way to go, Raab said.
We’re very close now to really turning the corner but think we still need to be careful to go as I said we don’t want to see the gains lost and the sacrifices that have been made undone. By the time we get to June 21 almost all social restrictions will be lifted, so there’s only a little bit more time to go but it’s right we do that in a careful way, the minister said.
The minister also indicated that the government is looking at certain social distancing and other safeguards that would still be needed after June 21.
According to some plans in the works, daily lateral flow tests could be used as an alternative to isolation for those who have been in contact with someone who tests positive for the coronavirus.
Currently, these people must quarantine for 10 days but a trial in England will see daily lateral flow tests given to as many as 40,000 people. Participants in the trial will be sent a week’s worth of tests and will be able to go about normal life as long as their daily results are negative.
