COVID-19: UK Lockdown For 3 More Weeks [VIDEO]

Britain will stay in lockdown for at least three more weeks until it passes five key tests, Dominic Raab announced yesterday.

The Foreign Secretary’s checks include ensuring the NHS is not overwhelmed by coronavirus victims and seeing a steady reduction in deaths.

Mr Raab said yesterday that the current restrictions were helping to halt the spread of the virus.

But he outlined five key tests the country had to meet before they could begin to be lifted. They are:

1. The NHS must still be able to cope – with the confidence that critical care and special treatment can continue across the UK
2. A sustained and consistent fall in the daily death rates so experts are confident that the peak has passed
3. The rate of infection falling to “manageable levels”
4. Making sure that Britain has enough testing capacity and PPE to relax measures
5. Ensuring that the changes will not risk a second peak of infections that overwhelm the NHS

Mr Raab said rushing to relax the measures would jeopardise all the progress made so far.

He added that the UK was still on course to take three months to come out of the current peak — taking the lockdown to June.