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Covid-19: Theatres in Northern Ireland could reopen on 21 June
By Jayne McCormack
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image captionTheatres have effectively been closed since the pandemic began last March
An indicative date of 21 June has been proposed for theatres in Northern Ireland to reopen, BBC News NI understands.
It is not clear if the move is being discussed as ministers are meeting to review lockdown restrictions.
Theatres have effectively been closed since the pandemic began last March.
Hugging of loved ones and the resumption of international travel are also expected to be discussed by ministers.
Theatres were allowed to resume rehearsals last summer, but were never allowed to welcome back audiences.
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“This newly formed Commission seeks to interrogate the key questions facing both global health and human rights in a world of complex transnational threats and challenges, from climate change to COVID-19, equity in access to healthcare and the ways to address the many communities excluded from current health and development debates. We feel the time is now to develop a more inclusive vision that can embolden efforts to realize the right to health for all.”
~ Adeeba Kamarulzaman & Chris Beyrer – Commission Co-Chairs
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Restrictions in Europe for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 could evolve with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) developing scenarios for when physical distancing rules can be lifted.
The ECDC says that when individuals are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, they could relax the use of face-masks and social distancing.
People who are fully vaccinated could also meet unvaccinated people who are not at risk of severe COVID-19 without face masks, the agency says. It’s a cautious recognition of the fact that when people are vaccinated the risk of transmission is reduced and also the risk of in particularly getting seriously ill is very significantly reduced, Martin McKee, a Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told Euronews.
“THERE is … no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain or indeed a zero-Covid world,” Boris Johnson told the House of Commons on February 22.
“We cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy, our physical and mental wellbeing, and the life chances of our children.”
To confirm, a zero-Covid strategy aims for the total elimination of Covid. Many people may be confused, thinking: “Isn’t this exactly what the government has been trying to do since the start of the pandemic?”
Unfortunately, the answer is no. Britain has followed what science writer Laura Spinney recently described in the Guardian as “a mitigation and suppression strategy, according to which we will have to live with Covid-19 and therefore we must learn to manage it aiming for herd immunity by the most painless route possible.”