Matt Hancock said the Government is ‘absolutely open’ to delaying June 21 plans
The next cohort of people – the under-30s – will be called up for the jab this week
The health secretary said it was ‘too early’ to make a final call on the June 21 date, but that the spread of the Delta variant had made the decision of whether to go ahead with the final step of easing restrictions more difficult.than the Kent one. ‘We said in the roadmap that June 21 is the date by which we would not take Step 4 before that date and that we would look at the data.
Mr Hancock said the jabs had ‘severed but not broken’ the link between a rise in Covid cases and an increase in the number of people being admitted to hospital.
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