Dominic Raab has declared that there is to be no change in lockdown rules ahead of the bank holiday weekend. The Foreign Secretary told the Downing Street press conference on Thursday that while the rate of infection for COVID-19 - known as the R value - is “steadily falling” to between 0.5 and 0.9, he made it clear that the virus is “not beaten yet”.
He said that although we have passed the peak of coronavirus due to “monumental effort” from British people, he warned it “remains deadly and infectious”.
He went on to confirm that Boris Johnson will use an address on Sunday to set out the “roadmap” to easing the lockdown. This means that for bank holiday, which this year is on a Friday (tomorrow) nothing has changed, therefore the