Restrictions on outdoor exercise time will be lifted this week Boris Johnson has announced details of a new COVID Alert system and given an update on the UK’s lockdown restrictions in his latest national address.
The Prime Minister praised the country’s citizens for their “good sense” in following the rules imposed by the government so far in today’s (May 10) televised message, saying the measures had prevented “what could have been a catastrophe in which the reasonable worst-case scenario was half a million fatalities.” While Johnson noted both the rate of deaths and hospital admissions were dropping, he said it was not yet time to end the lockdown.