UK Covid lockdown easing: A No 10 ‘priority’ is to allow more social contact
More people may be allowed to mix outdoors in the coming weeks, Downing Street sources say. …
But the government would argue that naming 22 February wasn’t some arbitrary effort to buy time, rather a logical choice – one that’s linked to the aim of reopening schools, two weeks later, while allowing both the lockdown and vaccine programme to take effect.