Live as Boris Johnson makes Downing Street address on lockdown easing, schools and vaccine
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to give updates on lockdown easing, England schools and vaccine roll-out
Boris Johnson will address the nation from Downing Street this afternoon after the Prime Minister pledged a “cautious but irreversible” approach to easing the Covid lockdown.
Mr Johnson will be joined at the press conference by NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens and chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty, No 10 has confirmed.
The Government has indicated that no decisions have been made on whether all pupils can return to school at the same time.
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Boris Johnson has admitted he could not guarantee there would be no further lockdowns although he stressed that “science is now unquestionably in the ascendancy over the disease”.
The Prime Minister told a Downing Street press conference: “I can’t give that guarantee, of course not, because we are battling with nature, with a disease that is capable of mutating and changing.
“I’m increasingly confident, I’m increasingly optimistic about the sheer extent of the possibilities that are opening up with vaccinations.