Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has said that schools will return fully in September and hinted at an imminent shift on the two-metre rule as the country’s coronavirus threat level was finally reduced.
After weeks in which the alert was maintained despite the PM starting to ease lockdown, the Joint Biosecurity Centre has lowered the rating from four to three because transmission is no longer ‘high or rising exponentially’.
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The reduction appears to pave the way for relaxing draconian social distancing curbs that are strangling the economy. Tories have been demanding the two-metre rule is loosened immediately, warning that schools and the hospitality sector cannot function while it remains.
Asked on a visit to a primary in Hemel Hempstead whether the restriction will be eased, Mr Johnson said: ‘Watch this space.’ And in his most categorical statement yet, he said it was ‘absolutely’ his intention for all pupils to be back full-time by September.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said government was determined to bring “every child back in every year group in every school”.
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