The UK government is unlikely to relax the nationwide lockdown to reduce transmission of coronavirus this week, despite indications that the social distancing measures are working and easing the strain on the National Health Service.
Speaking at Monday’s Downing Street press conference, foreign secretary Dominic Raab said there are “some positive signs from the data that we are starting to win this struggle”. But he also warned that Britain has “still not passed the peak of this virus.”
The announcement came as the UK’s death toll rose by 717 since Sunday, taking the number of those who have died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus to 11,329.