England Reopens Some Schools As Debate Rages About Lockdown Ease
Members of the public keep a 2-metre social distance as they queue in the car park to enter an Ikea store in Warrington, northwest England as it re-opens its doors following the easing of the lockdown restrictions during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on June 1, 2020. – Paul ELLIS / AFP.
The furore over Brexit architect Dominic Cummings appears to have abated but concern about Johnson’s handling of the crisis remains. The government is also allowing those most at risk of suffering serious consequences from the virus to spend time outdoors for the first time in two months. But critics argue that the so-called R rate of transmission — estimated nationally at between 0.7 and 0.9 — was still dangerously close to the 1.0 figure above which the virus’s spread grows.
“COVID-19 spreading too fast to lift lockdown in England,” scientific advisor Jeremy Farrar said on Twitter. “I don’t think the public are taking much notice of what is laid down in front of them,” Marsh told The Daily Telegraph,National Education Union co-leader Mary Bousted said the government has had to revise its school reopening guidance 41 times since mid-May.
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