We’re in our fifth week of lockdown now and while social distancing seems to be helping reduce the spread of coronavirus, it’s something we all need to continue doing for the foreseeable future, if we want to get back to our normal lives. If we stop now, we risk increasing the spread of the virus. To ensure this doesn’t happen, the government has advised that social distancing rules will continue until they are satisfied that the five conditions below have been met:
- Evidence that the NHS can cope across the UK
- A sustained fall in daily death rates
- Evidence that the rate of infection is decreasing
- Confidence that supplies of testing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are able to meet demand
- No risk of a second peak
