'A sense of the way ahead, and when and how and on what basis we will take the decisions to proceed.' The PM says the government's new road map for reopening society will address fears of both contracting COVID19 and the impact on livelihoods. More:
Some restrictions relaxed, but PM warns it is 'not the time' to end lockdownPeople who cannot work from home 'actively encouraged' to go back to work from MondayLive reporting by Alan McGuinness, news reporter"From this Wednesday, we want to encourage people to take more and even unlimited amounts of outdoor exercise," Boris Johnson says.
"And we want it to be safe for you to get to work. So you should avoid public transport if at all possible – because we must and will maintain social distancing, and capacity will therefore be limited."And to ensure you are safe at work we have been working to establish new guidance for employers to make workplaces COVID-secure.
"We are shining the light of science on this invisible killer, and we will pick it up where it strikes. "Over the period of the lockdown we have been in Level Four, and it is thanks to your sacrifice we are now in a position to begin to move in steps to Level Three."Boris Johnson says there is a"general consensus" across the UK on"what we could do" to ease the lockdown."And since our priority is to protect the public and save lives, we cannot move forward unless we satisfy the five tests."We must see sustained and considerable falls in the rate of infection.
"I believe that as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, there is a strong resolve to defeat this together.""And yet we must also recognise that this campaign against the virus has come at colossal cost to our way of life. "I will be setting out more details in Parliament tomorrow and taking questions from the public in the evening.""Though the death toll has been tragic, and the suffering immense, and though we grieve for all those we have lost, it is a fact that by adopting those measures we prevented this country from being engulfed by what could have been a catastrophe in which the reasonable worst case scenario was half a million fatalities," Boris Johnson says.
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