Downing Street today admitted the coronavirus "alert level" is still 4 - which it has been since the very start of the lockdown on March 23.
The alert, set by a new Joint Biosecurity Centre, means Covid-19 is still "in general circulation" and "transmission is high or rising exponentially".
It is moving to Level 3 - which would mean Covid-19 is "in general circulation" but without high transmission - but is not there yet.
No10 insisted there was not a direct link between the alert levels - which is are designed to inform the public more generally - and easing lockdown.