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UK to unveil lockdown easing plans this week, says health minister

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LONDON: Like almost every other country in the world, Britain is also making plans to ease the lockdown imposed in the country due to the spread of Covid-19. According to Matt Hancock, Minister of Health, said that Britain will be unveiling plans to outline the process that will be followed to ease the lockdown this week, potentially relaxing the two-metre rule on social distancing, allowing many businesses to reopen in early July.

Hancock, on Sunday, June 21, told BBC, “This week we will announce further details of the measures we can take to relieve some of the national lockdown measures at the start of July, including on July 4.”

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