The devolved governments of Wales and Scotland are also significantly easing Covid-19 restrictions. Before the pandemic, such invasive regulation of personal life would have seemed the stuff of dystopian fiction. Its abridgment, in these and other aspects of daily life, is cause for wary optimism if not yet celebration. The reason for continued caution is that the crisis remains far from over. SponsoredIf full lifting of all legal limits on social contact is to go ahead as planned, on June 21, it is essential that variants of Covid-19 be strictly controlled.

Source: The Times May 16, 2021 23:03 UTC