Lifting lockdown: five charts to determine Freedom Day delay

Reopening on 21 June set to be pushed back as Covid cases soar

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson is due to announce a delay to the final step of lockdown reopening as the government races to outpace the spread of the new Covid variant with the vaccination programme.

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