Coronavirus: Death

(asked on 11th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment this Department has made of the number of daily deaths from covid-19 at which all covid-19 restrictions on (a) social and (b) economic activities can be removed.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 21st January 2021

The restrictions on social and economic activity are necessary to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and in pursuing these policies we do take account of the burden on people, and on the economy. It was necessary to announce a national lockdown on 4 January to curb the spread of COVID-19 whilst we continue to vaccinate as many people as possible.

The Government keeps the restrictions under continual review and will make changes as and when the data and science support it but we expect that the national lockdown to last until at least mid-February.

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