The UK government is considering only a modest change to its strict stay-at-home lockdown measures from next week because coronavirus remains deadly and infectious, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday.
Addressing the daily 10 Downing Street briefing, the senior Cabinet minister said that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be making a televised address to the British public to lay out the next phase in the country's fight against the pandemic, which has claimed 30,615 lives.
"Because we held firm three weeks ago, we are now in a position to start to think about the next phase in this pandemic," said Raab, as he confirmed that the Cabinet had deliberated on the scientific advice presented by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) on Thursday
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