Coronavirus cases need to fall tenfold before pubs open and Boris Johnson’s goal of “irreversible” easing is likely to be unachievable, Tony Blair’s think tank has concluded.
Johnson’s road map out of lockdown next week should set out a clear, numerical link between the state of the epidemic and the lifting or imposing of restrictions, according to the report published today by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
A complete lifting of restrictions may not be safe until there are no known cases of coronavirus in Britain, and rapid reimposing of local restrictions, mass testing and app-based vaccine passports will be needed to avoid another national lockdown, the research group said.
Blair, who was prime minister from 1997 to 2007, has become an
