Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced this morning that people under 30 can now come forward for their Coronavirus jabs
Doing the media round this morning he also said it was “too early” to determine whether the Government would lift all coronavirus restrictions on June 21st
Asked whether he had seen anything in the data that could delay reopening this month, he told Sky News:
“It is too early to make a final decision on that. The Prime Minister and I and the team will be looking at all of the data over this week.
“We have said that we will give people enough time ahead of the June 21 date which is pencilled in as the next step – which is to be not before June 21 – and the critical thing is to see whether the four tests we have set have been met.
“That’s in terms of the number of cases, and cases are rising slightly, the number of hospitalisations, which are much more flat.
“That’s because the third test, the rollout of the vaccine, is going incredibly well.
“Then, of course, we have to look at the impact of new variants and we have seen a very significant impact of a new variant – the Delta (also known as the Indian) variant – over the last month or so.”
