Johnson said legal controls will be replaced by "personal responsibility" when the country moves to the final stage of its lockdown-lifting roadmap. That is scheduled to happen on July 19, though Johnson said a final decision would come on July 12. Other parts of the U.K. — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — are following their own, broadly similar, road maps out of lockdown. Johnson acknowledged that infections, hospitalizations and deaths will all rise once remaining restrictions are lifted. But public health officials and scientists have urged caution, saying ditching masks and social distancing altogether could be dangerous.

Source: Fox News July 05, 2021 16:41 UTC