A woman wears a protective mask as she reads a book amongst social distancing markers, in Liverpool, Britain.restrictions on July 19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, in his most confident statement yet that what has been dubbed “Freedom Day” will take place as planned.
But with coronavirus cases rising, driven largely by the more transmissible Delta variant, the government postponed the date until July 19.“With every day that goes by it’s clearer to me and all our scientific advisers that we’re very likely to be in a position on July 19 to say that really is the terminus and we can go back to life as it was before COVID as far as possible,” Johnson told reporters.
Hancock had been forced to resign after the Sun tabloid published pictures of him kissing and embracing an aide in his office at a time when it was against the rules for people to have intimate contact with a person outside their household.