And no earlier than July, we can move to step three, opening parts of the leisure and hospitality sectors. No earlier than June, we hope to move to step two, opening schools to more children and re-opening some shops. And avoid public transport if you can, but use it if you can’t. The message is: work from home if you can but travel to work if you can’t. The COVID-19 Secure guidelines we developed together mean we can encourage people who can’t work from home to go to their place of work in a safe way.
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We have held extensive talks with employers, trade unions and the devolved administrations about how to make workplaces safe. Now that we have driven the rate of infection down, and there are fewer infections, some people can also start returning to work. I am confident that the balance of risk, taking everything into account, means we can safely make this change. Being able to see a friend or family member at a safe distance, in a park or at the end of the road, provides significant benefits to our physical and mental wellbeing - but crucially, it does not risk reversing the gains we have so far won in the fight against the virus. These changes are possible because the evidence shows that the risk of transmission is significantly lower outdoors. You can exercise outdoors as often as you wish and play sport.Įven with these changes, it’s vital that people stay alert, keep their distance from others and carry on washing their hands regularly. You can meet one other person from a different household outdoors, provided you maintain social distancing. You can now spend as much time as you like outdoors, for example sitting and enjoying the fresh air, picnicking, or sunbathing. We have announced new rules on what people can and cannot do in England. It is the British public’s fortitude, their perseverance, their good common sense and their desire to return to the freedoms they hold dear that has allowed us to inch forwards. We are setting up a system of COVID-19 Alert levels, which will be overseen by a new UK Joint Biosecurity Centre designed to assess the spread of the virus and inform decisions over how we lift the lockdown. We set five tests, of which three have been met and progress is being made on the remaining two. I made clear from the outset that we can only make changes to the lockdown when it is safe to do so, guided by science. Despite predictions that critical care capacity would struggle to cope, the NHS was emphatically not overwhelmed. The number of people admitted to hospital with Covid has steadily fallen. We have seen the number of positive cases plateau and fall, even as testing capacity has increased tenfold.
Yet those vital human connections have been cruelly denied to all of us by this insidious disease. We thrive off social contact and having those we love around us – it’s human nature. Unable to visit places of worship or even just spend time with others. I don’t underestimate how difficult it has been for everyone to be cut off from friends and parents, children and grandchildren, brothers and sisters. And their efforts have not been in vain for a simple reason – because the British people as a whole have risen so magnificently to the challenge we set: to stay at home. They are the best of us, punctuating each day with a million acts of love and kindness. Civil servants working round the clock to implement every policy decision – all these people are putting others first. Our armed forces rising to every logistical challenge with awesome professionalism. Engineers keeping the lights on and our broadband connected. Those producing, processing, distributing and selling food. Police and prison officers keeping order on our streets and in our prisons. Teachers helping critical workers go to work by looking after their children, while still teaching those at home. The staff in our care homes and NHS doing all they can to bring the sick back to health. In recent weeks we have seen phenomenal bravery, compassion and selflessness as people go above and beyond to protect the lives of others. We can only defeat it by acting together. They remain constantly in my thoughts each death a spur to redouble our efforts to defeat this virus. Every victim leaves behind family, friends and loved ones who mourn their loss. If 2020 has taught us anything, it is truly that the worst of times bring out the best in humanity.Įvery day brings heart-breaking news as more lives are lost before their time to this vicious coronavirus.
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