restrictions in what many people have dubbed Freedom Day .
Masks will no longer be compulsory indoors, social distancing will be abolished and more than six people will be allowed to mix inside homes for the first time since September last year.
But with 50,000 new COVID-19 cases per day occurring in the United Kingdom currently – the highest numbers since Britain s third wave in January – is this the right time to be doing it?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes so and is backing his government s vaccination drive – which has seen more than two-thirds of all adults double vaccinated – to allow it to happen and let the last remaining closed businesses, such as nightclubs, reopen.
People dance inside nightclubs in Reading as they reopen on Freedom Day
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