{"id":94851,"date":"2020-04-27T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=94851"},"modified":"2020-04-27T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:02:47","slug":"johnson-to-refine-uk-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/johnson-to-refine-uk-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson To \u201cRefine\u201d UK Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boris Johnson has promised the UK public that he will refine lockdown in the coming days.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After his battle with Coronavirus, he has thanked people for their \u201cgrit and guts\u201d during the duration of the lockdown so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to share our thinking with you the British people,\u201d he said, after promising to set out the options \u201cin the coming days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said these new policies would involve \u201cdifficult decisions\u201d which he is prepared to lay out to the public, after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and some Tories that ministers were said to be \u201ctreating people like children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re sure that this first phase is over and that we\u2019re meeting our five tests: deaths falling, NHS protected, rate of infection down, really sorting out the challenges of testing and PPE, avoiding a second peak, then that will be the time to move on to the second phase in which we continue to suppress the disease and keep the reproduction rate \u2014 the R rate \u2014 down, but begin gradually to refine the economic and social restrictions and one by one to fire up the engines of this vast UK economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in that process difficult judgments will be made and we simply cannot spell out now how fast or slow, or even when, those changes will be made, though clearly the government will be saying much more about this in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I want to serve notice now that these decisions will be taken with the maximum possible transparency. And I want to share all our working and our thinking, my thinking, with you the British people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be relying as ever on the science to inform us, as we have from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson has promised the UK public that he will refine lockdown in the coming days. After his battle with Coronavirus, he has thanked people for their \u201cgrit and guts\u201d during the duration of the lockdown so far. \u201cI want to share our thinking with you the British people,\u201d he said, after promising to set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":14269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1802,1811,1810,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-94851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-information","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94885,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94851\/revisions\/94885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}