What is likely to change on 21 June?

The government hopes to lift ‘all legal limits of social contact’ in less than a month

Boris Johnson
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Lockdown restrictions are set to be eased yet further on 21 June as ministers aim to keep to the government roadmap on emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The fourth step in the plan should go ahead next month, provided hospitalisations, deaths and infection rates remain low, although local lockdowns have not yet been ruled out to combat the Indian variant.

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