England Delays Covid Reopening For Four Weeks: UK's Boris Johnson

"On the evidence I can see right now, I'm confident that we will not need more than four weeks and won't need to go beyond July 19," UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a four-week delay to the full lifting of coronavirus restrictions in England due to a surge of infections caused by the Delta variant. "On the evidence I can see right now, I'm confident that we will not need more than four weeks and won't need to go beyond July 19," Johnson told a press briefing as he announced the delay from the planned June 21 reopening date. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)