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"And no mention of when gym's might even open "Gyms/tattoo studios etc will be the last to open. | |||
"And no mention of when gym's might even open "Gyms will be last mate. Unfortunately. | |||
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"Can someone clarify the sports message he said, thank you." Exercise more but maintain social distance, from those not in your household..? | |||
"Can someone clarify the sports message he said, thank you." Only Do sports with members of your own household | |||
"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas" Again sports within your own household | |||
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"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas" Where does it specifically say you can drive to a beach? The nearest beach to me is over 100 miles away. Am I ok to go there? | |||
"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas" Anyone else just see watersports???  | |||
"Seems weird to me. Not sure how some people are expected to return to work tomorrow, with no clear rules for employers to ensure social distancing or provision of PPE, and no clarity of how people with kids do this given their kids are still at home. I understand the intent, just don’t know how the practicalities will work without greater clarity." Is there not any advice re workplaces on line from the government/cbi? Teaching unions have written to government I understand with their concerns and suggestions.. | |||
"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas Anyone else just see watersports??? "I can see your boobs in your pics  | |||
"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas Where does it specifically say you can drive to a beach? The nearest beach to me is over 100 miles away. Am I ok to go there?" You are allowed to drive somewhere to exercise as long as the drive isn't longer than the exercise. I gonna couple of times a week to the beach with my dogs, but I'm less than 10 miles away. | |||
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"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough?" Looks like it could be the beginning of the end for furlough. | |||
"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough? Looks like it could be the beginning of the end for furlough. " Chancellors already said it will be reviewed, just priming it to nudge people.. | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff." basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place! | |||
"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough?" Might be the start of the 60% Furlough. | |||
"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough? Looks like it could be the beginning of the end for furlough. " It was in news before tonights speech that they will be phasing furlough and people can start working part time. | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place!" And that's their right. They have chosen to diverge. | |||
"Seems weird to me. Not sure how some people are expected to return to work tomorrow, with no clear rules for employers to ensure social distancing or provision of PPE, and no clarity of how people with kids do this given their kids are still at home. I understand the intent, just don’t know how the practicalities will work without greater clarity." I’m sure those Furloughed were told or should have been told by their employer they would be given at least one days notice to return to work, so your employer should contact you once they have safety measures in place on your return to work date. | |||
"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough? Looks like it could be the beginning of the end for furlough. " So shop assistants cant work from home...that's all the shops back open then. I'll give it until July and we will be back to a far stricter lockdown then we have now...wheres the science in this ffs  | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place!" Yep. Just wish they could all be on the same page with this if all things. | |||
"Seems weird to me. Not sure how some people are expected to return to work tomorrow, with no clear rules for employers to ensure social distancing or provision of PPE, and no clarity of how people with kids do this given their kids are still at home. I understand the intent, just don’t know how the practicalities will work without greater clarity. I’m sure those Furloughed were told or should have been told by their employer they would be given at least one days notice to return to work, so your employer should contact you once they have safety measures in place on your return to work date." Still furloughed for another week. Back to work next Monday. | |||
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"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas Anyone else just see watersports??? "Yes but only because we miss sailing  | |||
"And no mention of when gym's might even open "August or September. | |||
JOKING KEEP SAFE | |||
"Can someone clarify the sports message he said, thank you. Only Do sports with members of your own household "  | |||
"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough?" Fulough ending anyway all part time work | |||
"And no mention of when gym's might even open
August or September. "2021 | |||
" You are allowed to drive somewhere to exercise as long as the drive isn't longer than the exercise. I gonna couple of times a week to the beach with my dogs, but I'm less than 10 miles away." So I can do the 3 peaks then... great news, I missed that bit must have nodded off. It’s about 10 hours of driving and if I run down Ben Nevis and Snowden I can complete it in 9 hours | |||
"And no mention of when gym's might even open
August or September. "Did he mention gyms?? I must have missed it. No mention of gyms for us in Wales atm though  | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place! Yep. Just wish they could all be on the same page with this if all things." Well the logic in Northern Ireland is to fight it geographically as an island rather than 2 separate entities. Common sense prevails at last | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place! And that's their right. They have chosen to diverge." now that is what i like to call "spin" since it was westminster who said all week there would be a "4 nation approach" to this and they would go at the same speed... i am not surprised that sturgeon was annoyed that the first she found out about Bojo's plan was when we all found out..... if there is going to be a "4 nation approach" it helps if you consult the other 3!  | |||
"And no mention of when gym's might even open
August or September.
Did he mention gyms?? I must have missed it. No mention of gyms for us in Wales atm though "Nope but my brother is a pt and they have been told they will be the last phase of businesses to open | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place! Yep. Just wish they could all be on the same page with this if all things. Well the logic in Northern Ireland is to fight it geographically as an island rather than 2 separate entities. Common sense prevails at last" Well that does seem logical I agree. Wales/Scotland not so much. | |||
"So if you cant work from home you should return to work. Is this the end of furlough? Fulough ending anyway all part time work " No its not ending, it will be phased out. Some will return to work other businesses wil drop to 60% furlough and hospitality will stay at 80% furlough | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place! Yep. Just wish they could all be on the same page with this if all things. Well the logic in Northern Ireland is to fight it geographically as an island rather than 2 separate entities. Common sense prevails at last Well that does seem logical I agree. Wales/Scotland not so much." Well he might help the situation if he asked people's opinions rather than just shove his down their throat | |||
"And no mention of when gym's might even open
August or September.
Did he mention gyms?? I must have missed it. No mention of gyms for us in Wales atm though
Nope but my brother is a pt and they have been told they will be the last phase of businesses to open "Just been trying to find the link, but I read somewhere a few days ago that saunas, gyms, massage parlours etc won't be opening til next year. | |||
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"I’m amazed there was no detail of when people can meet with friends and family, given how important this sort of social contact is to people’s mental health." You can meet with them as long as you keep 2 metres away, just as all those at work do, just do it if its necessary for mental health not a big family party. Its common sense, which seems to be lacking these days | |||
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"Can’t understand why they are thinking of letting early years and year 1 back as one of the first? Won’t they find it the hardest to socially distance and wash hands properly. Been reading twitter and lots of headteachers don’t understand it either. " I'm assuming it's to help with childcare so people can get back to work. | |||
"In Wales our news came on afterwards and they basically said ‘none of that applies to us’ because of the Welsh Assembly or whatever the glorified council chamber calls itself nowadays. It’s going to get messy and confusing, nobody will listen to Cardiff. basically his entire speech was English consumption only! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all said rules as they are will remain in place! And that's their right. They have chosen to diverge. now that is what i like to call "spin" since it was westminster who said all week there would be a "4 nation approach" to this and they would go at the same speed... i am not surprised that sturgeon was annoyed that the first she found out about Bojo's plan was when we all found out..... if there is going to be a "4 nation approach" it helps if you consult the other 3! " | |||
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"Speech made perfect sense to me, perhaps I'm missing something! Lol. There will probably be a rise in infections, but it's all about managing that rise/demand. After all, what is the alternative? " Test, track, trace, isolate. It's been the only viable approach all along. Anything less is just doing it on a wing and a prayer. | |||
"Seems weird to me. Not sure how some people are expected to return to work tomorrow, with no clear rules for employers to ensure social distancing or provision of PPE, and no clarity of how people with kids do this given their kids are still at home. I understand the intent, just don’t know how the practicalities will work without greater clarity." Good point about those with kids | |||
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"Can someone clarify the sports message he said, thank you." You can go fishing or play a game of golf as long as you only go on your own or with members of your house | |||
"I’m amazed there was no detail of when people can meet with friends and family, given how important this sort of social contact is to people’s mental health." On the government's advice page or now says "limit contact with other people" I think this needs clarification. Because it could mean effectively no change to lockdown rules but can be interpreted as limit contact to a, small number of loved ones. | |||
"Here is his speech in full: It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war. And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly. You have put up with all the hardships of that programme of social distancing. Because you understand that as things stand, and as the experience of every other country has shown, it’s the only way to defeat the coronavirus – the most vicious threat this country has faced in my lifetime. And 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. And it is thanks to your effort and sacrifice in stopping the spread of this disease that the death rate is coming down and hospital admissions are coming down. And thanks to you we have protected our NHS and saved many thousands of lives. And so I know – you know – that it would be madness now to throw away that achievement by allowing a second spike. We must stay alert. We must continue to control the virus and save lives. And yet we must also recognise that this campaign against the virus has come at colossal cost to our way of life. We can see it all around us in the shuttered shops and abandoned businesses and darkened pubs and restaurants. And there are millions of people who are both fearful of this terrible disease, and at the same time also fearful of what this long period of enforced inactivity will do to their livelihoods and their mental and physical wellbeing. To their futures and the futures of their children. So I want to provide tonight – for you – the shape of a plan to address both fears. Both to beat the virus and provide the first sketch of a road map for reopening society. A sense of the way ahead, and when and how and on what basis we will take the decisions to proceed. I will be setting out more details in Parliament tomorrow and taking questions from the public in the evening. I have consulted across the political spectrum, across all four nations of the UK. And though different parts of the country are experiencing the pandemic at different rates. And though it is right to be flexible in our response. 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 today a general consensus on what we could do. And I stress could. Because although we have a plan, it is a conditional plan. And since our priority is to protect the public and save lives, we cannot move forward unless we satisfy the five tests. We must protect our NHS. We must see sustained falls in the death rate. We must see sustained and considerable falls in the rate of infection. We must sort out our challenges in getting enough PPE to the people who need it, and yes, it is a global problem but we must fix it. And last, we must make sure that any measures we take do not force the reproduction rate of the disease – the R – back up over one, so that we have the kind of exponential growth we were facing a few weeks ago. And to chart our progress and to avoid going back to square one, we are establishing a new Covid Alert System run by a new Joint Biosecurity Centre. And that Covid Alert Level will be determined primarily by R and the number of coronavirus cases. And in turn that Covid Alert Level will tell us how tough we have to be in our social distancing measures – the lower the level the fewer the measures. The higher the level, the tougher and stricter we will have to be. There will be five alert levels. Level One means the disease is no longer present in the UK and Level Five is the most critical – the kind of situation we could have had if the NHS had been overwhelmed. 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. And as we go everyone will have a role to play in keeping the R down. By staying alert and following the rules. And to keep pushing the number of infections down there are two more things we must do. We must reverse rapidly the awful epidemics in care homes and in the NHS, and though the numbers are coming down sharply now, there is plainly much more to be done. And if we are to control this virus, then we must have a world-beating system for testing potential victims, and for tracing their contacts. So that – all told – we are testing literally hundreds of thousands of people every day. We have made fast progress on testing – but there is so much more to do now, and we can. When this began, we hadn’t seen this disease before, and we didn’t fully understand its effects. With every day we are getting more and more data. We are shining the light of science on this invisible killer, and we will pick it up where it strikes. Because our new system will be able in time to detect local flare-ups – in your area – as well as giving us a national picture. And yet when I look at where we are tonight, we have the R below one, between 0.5 and 0.9 – but potentially only just below one. And though we have made progress in satisfying at least some of the conditions I have given. We have by no means fulfilled all of them. And so no, this is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week. Instead we are taking the first careful steps to modify our measures. And the first step is a change of emphasis that we hope that people will act on this week. We said that you should work from home if you can, and only go to work if you must. We now need to stress that anyone who can’t work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work. 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. So work from home if you can, but you should go to work if you can’t work from home. And to ensure you are safe at work we have been working to establish new guidance for employers to make workplaces COVID-secure. And when you do go to work, if possible do so by car or even better by walking or bicycle. But just as with workplaces, public transport operators will also be following COVID-secure standards. And from this Wednesday, we want to encourage people to take more and even unlimited amounts of outdoor exercise. You can sit in the sun in your local park, you can drive to other destinations, you can even play sports but only with members of your own household. You must obey the rules on social distancing and to enforce those rules we will increase the fines for the small minority who break them. And so every day, with ever increasing data, we will be monitoring the R and the number of new infections, and the progress we are making, and if we as a nation begin to fulfil the conditions I have set out, then in the next few weeks and months we may be able to go further. In step two – at the earliest by June 1 – after half term – we believe we may be in a position to begin the phased reopening of shops and to get primary pupils back into schools, in stages, beginning with reception, Year 1 and Year 6. Our ambition is that secondary pupils facing exams next year will get at least some time with their teachers before the holidays. And we will shortly be setting out detailed guidance on how to make it work in schools and shops and on transport. And step three – at the earliest by July – and subject to all these conditions and further scientific advice; if and only if the numbers support it, we will hope to re-open at least some of the hospitality industry and other public places, provided they are safe and enforce social distancing. Throughout this period of the next two months we will be driven not by mere hope or economic necessity. We are going to be driven by the science, the data and public health. And I must stress again that all of this is conditional, it all depends on a series of big Ifs. It depends on all of us – the entire country – to follow the advice, to observe social distancing, and to keep that R down. And to prevent re-infection from abroad, I am serving notice that it will soon be the time – with transmission significantly lower – to impose quarantine on people coming into this country by air. And it is because of your efforts to get the R down and the number of infections down here, that this measure will now be effective. And of course we will be monitoring our progress locally, regionally, and nationally and if there are outbreaks, if there are problems, we will not hesitate to put on the brakes. We have been through the initial peak – but it is coming down the mountain that is often more dangerous. We have a route, and we have a plan, and everyone in government has the all-consuming pressure and challenge to save lives, restore livelihoods and gradually restore the freedoms that we need. But in the end this is a plan that everyone must make work. And when I look at what you have done already. The patience and common sense you have shown. The fortitude of the elderly whose isolation we all want to end as fast as we can. The incredible bravery and hard work of our NHS staff, our care workers. The devotion and self-sacrifice of all those in every walk of life who are helping us to beat this disease. Police, bus drivers, train drivers, pharmacists, supermarket workers, road hauliers, bin collectors, cleaners, security guards, postal workers, our teachers and a thousand more. The scientists who are working round the clock to find a vaccine. When I think of the millions of everyday acts of kindness and thoughtfulness that are being performed across this country. And that have helped to get us through this first phase. I know that we can use this plan to get us through the next. And if we can’t do it by those dates, and if the alert level won’t allow it, we will simply wait and go on until we have got it right. We will come back from this devilish illness. We will come back to health, and robust health. And though the UK will be changed by this experience, I believe we can be stronger and better than ever before. More resilient, more innovative, more economically dynamic, but also more generous and more sharing. But for now we must stay alert, control the virus and save lives. Thank you very much." Please tell me you didn’t have to type all that yourself. | |||
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"Can’t understand why they are thinking of letting early years and year 1 back as one of the first? Won’t they find it the hardest to socially distance and wash hands properly. Been reading twitter and lots of headteachers don’t understand it either. " They’ll go back 1st as they do testing in year r and then have stats in year 2 and 6 so it’s a no brainier that they’ll go back 1st for all assessments to take place, he also said about year 10 going back which again is to prepare for exams next year! He also said about those who can go back to work to go back but how the heck can I do that when I work in retail and can’t get into the building?? | |||
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"Additional details from gvt source about Boris Johnson speech - Unlimited outdoor exercise includes angling, golf, water sports and tennis provided all socially distanced from Wednesday - You can drive to a park or beach in England but not Wales / Scotland/ Northern Ireland - Primary school reception, year 1 and year 6 will be first in line to return from June 1 if the conditions allow. Other primary pupils hopefully back before summer - School’s out for secondary pupils except Year 10 and 12 pupils in secondary schools facing exams next year will get some contact time - Quarantine is a few weeks away and will be 14 days - The kinds of places that might open in phase 3 include places of worship and socially distanced cinemas Anyone else just see watersports??? "Yes in available@!! | |||
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"Here is his speech in full: It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war. And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly. You have put up with all the hardships of that programme of social distancing. Because you understand that as things stand, and as the experience of every other country has shown, it’s the only way to defeat the coronavirus – the most vicious threat this country has faced in my lifetime. And 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. And it is thanks to your effort and sacrifice in stopping the spread of this disease that the death rate is coming down and hospital admissions are coming down. And thanks to you we have protected our NHS and saved many thousands of lives. And so I know – you know – that it would be madness now to throw away that achievement by allowing a second spike. We must stay alert. We must continue to control the virus and save lives. And yet we must also recognise that this campaign against the virus has come at colossal cost to our way of life. We can see it all around us in the shuttered shops and abandoned businesses and darkened pubs and restaurants. And there are millions of people who are both fearful of this terrible disease, and at the same time also fearful of what this long period of enforced inactivity will do to their livelihoods and their mental and physical wellbeing. To their futures and the futures of their children. So I want to provide tonight – for you – the shape of a plan to address both fears. Both to beat the virus and provide the first sketch of a road map for reopening society. A sense of the way ahead, and when and how and on what basis we will take the decisions to proceed. I will be setting out more details in Parliament tomorrow and taking questions from the public in the evening. I have consulted across the political spectrum, across all four nations of the UK. And though different parts of the country are experiencing the pandemic at different rates. And though it is right to be flexible in our response. 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 today a general consensus on what we could do. And I stress could. Because although we have a plan, it is a conditional plan. And since our priority is to protect the public and save lives, we cannot move forward unless we satisfy the five tests. We must protect our NHS. We must see sustained falls in the death rate. We must see sustained and considerable falls in the rate of infection. We must sort out our challenges in getting enough PPE to the people who need it, and yes, it is a global problem but we must fix it. And last, we must make sure that any measures we take do not force the reproduction rate of the disease – the R – back up over one, so that we have the kind of exponential growth we were facing a few weeks ago. And to chart our progress and to avoid going back to square one, we are establishing a new Covid Alert System run by a new Joint Biosecurity Centre. And that Covid Alert Level will be determined primarily by R and the number of coronavirus cases. And in turn that Covid Alert Level will tell us how tough we have to be in our social distancing measures – the lower the level the fewer the measures. The higher the level, the tougher and stricter we will have to be. There will be five alert levels. Level One means the disease is no longer present in the UK and Level Five is the most critical – the kind of situation we could have had if the NHS had been overwhelmed. 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. And as we go everyone will have a role to play in keeping the R down. By staying alert and following the rules. And to keep pushing the number of infections down there are two more things we must do. We must reverse rapidly the awful epidemics in care homes and in the NHS, and though the numbers are coming down sharply now, there is plainly much more to be done. And if we are to control this virus, then we must have a world-beating system for testing potential victims, and for tracing their contacts. So that – all told – we are testing literally hundreds of thousands of people every day. We have made fast progress on testing – but there is so much more to do now, and we can. When this began, we hadn’t seen this disease before, and we didn’t fully understand its effects. With every day we are getting more and more data. We are shining the light of science on this invisible killer, and we will pick it up where it strikes. Because our new system will be able in time to detect local flare-ups – in your area – as well as giving us a national picture. And yet when I look at where we are tonight, we have the R below one, between 0.5 and 0.9 – but potentially only just below one. And though we have made progress in satisfying at least some of the conditions I have given. We have by no means fulfilled all of them. And so no, this is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week. Instead we are taking the first careful steps to modify our measures. And the first step is a change of emphasis that we hope that people will act on this week. We said that you should work from home if you can, and only go to work if you must. We now need to stress that anyone who can’t work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work. 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. So work from home if you can, but you should go to work if you can’t work from home. And to ensure you are safe at work we have been working to establish new guidance for employers to make workplaces COVID-secure. And when you do go to work, if possible do so by car or even better by walking or bicycle. But just as with workplaces, public transport operators will also be following COVID-secure standards. And from this Wednesday, we want to encourage people to take more and even unlimited amounts of outdoor exercise. You can sit in the sun in your local park, you can drive to other destinations, you can even play sports but only with members of your own household. You must obey the rules on social distancing and to enforce those rules we will increase the fines for the small minority who break them. And so every day, with ever increasing data, we will be monitoring the R and the number of new infections, and the progress we are making, and if we as a nation begin to fulfil the conditions I have set out, then in the next few weeks and months we may be able to go further. In step two – at the earliest by June 1 – after half term – we believe we may be in a position to begin the phased reopening of shops and to get primary pupils back into schools, in stages, beginning with reception, Year 1 and Year 6. Our ambition is that secondary pupils facing exams next year will get at least some time with their teachers before the holidays. And we will shortly be setting out detailed guidance on how to make it work in schools and shops and on transport. And step three – at the earliest by July – and subject to all these conditions and further scientific advice; if and only if the numbers support it, we will hope to re-open at least some of the hospitality industry and other public places, provided they are safe and enforce social distancing. Throughout this period of the next two months we will be driven not by mere hope or economic necessity. We are going to be driven by the science, the data and public health. And I must stress again that all of this is conditional, it all depends on a series of big Ifs. It depends on all of us – the entire country – to follow the advice, to observe social distancing, and to keep that R down. And to prevent re-infection from abroad, I am serving notice that it will soon be the time – with transmission significantly lower – to impose quarantine on people coming into this country by air. And it is because of your efforts to get the R down and the number of infections down here, that this measure will now be effective. And of course we will be monitoring our progress locally, regionally, and nationally and if there are outbreaks, if there are problems, we will not hesitate to put on the brakes. We have been through the initial peak – but it is coming down the mountain that is often more dangerous. We have a route, and we have a plan, and everyone in government has the all-consuming pressure and challenge to save lives, restore livelihoods and gradually restore the freedoms that we need. But in the end this is a plan that everyone must make work. And when I look at what you have done already. The patience and common sense you have shown. The fortitude of the elderly whose isolation we all want to end as fast as we can. The incredible bravery and hard work of our NHS staff, our care workers. The devotion and self-sacrifice of all those in every walk of life who are helping us to beat this disease. Police, bus drivers, train drivers, pharmacists, supermarket workers, road hauliers, bin collectors, cleaners, security guards, postal workers, our teachers and a thousand more. The scientists who are working round the clock to find a vaccine. When I think of the millions of everyday acts of kindness and thoughtfulness that are being performed across this country. And that have helped to get us through this first phase. I know that we can use this plan to get us through the next. And if we can’t do it by those dates, and if the alert level won’t allow it, we will simply wait and go on until we have got it right. We will come back from this devilish illness. We will come back to health, and robust health. And though the UK will be changed by this experience, I believe we can be stronger and better than ever before. More resilient, more innovative, more economically dynamic, but also more generous and more sharing. But for now we must stay alert, control the virus and save lives. Thank you very much. Please tell me you didn’t have to type all that yourself. " Copy and paste | |||
"Hypothetically dogging is allowed now Two people from different households will be allowed to meet outdoors if they stay more than two metres apart. So if you like to watch you technically could As long as you didn’t break public decency laws Just saying like - not that I would. " Great news for exhibitionistic and voyeuristic players. | |||
"Seemed like good steps to me .. good idea on time scales ... nice to see a light at the end of a tunnel that’s not a train ... seemed like a decent plan to get things moving again and the economy cogs turning again. Not an immediate lift and not an ongoing unchanged lockdown with no end in sight !" We too got it, think the critics choose to hear what they want to then start picking fault with whatever the govt have said to twist things to suit their own agendas. | |||
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"Seemed like good steps to me .. good idea on time scales ... nice to see a light at the end of a tunnel that’s not a train ... seemed like a decent plan to get things moving again and the economy cogs turning again. Not an immediate lift and not an ongoing unchanged lockdown with no end in sight ! We too got it, think the critics choose to hear what they want to then start picking fault with whatever the govt have said to twist things to suit their own agendas. "
The questions being asked are mind numbing. "If my mate is already at the park when I get there, should I go back home?"
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