Coronavirus: Britain’s health minister says too early to decide on lifting lockdown

British health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday it was too early to say whether the government would stick to its plan to fully lift Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England on June 21.Hancock said there had been a “very significant” impact from the Delta variant of Covid-19 first detected in India over the last month, which is now the dominant strain in England, according to official estimates.He pointed to a renewed rise in virus cases but said he had been reassured by a broadly flat…

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