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Boris Johnson extends Britain's long pandemic restrictions as variant stunts vaccine rollout
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Boris Johnson has told English citizens that his government's plan to lift all Covid-19 restrictions on June 21 has been scuppered by the Delta variant of the virus.
Despite the UK's successful vaccine rollout, which has given two doses to more than half of the adult population, the prevalence of the Delta variant -- first identified in India -- has convinced the Prime Minister and his government that "freedom day" for English citizens, as some have called it, must be delayed by four weeks to July 19. "Now is the time to ease off the accelerator because by being cautious now, we have the chance in the next four weeks to save many thousands of lives by vaccinating millions more people," Johnson said at a press conference in Downing Street.More Related News

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