Dozens of politicians from the British Conservative party, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, put an end to the closure measures at the end of April, when the country’s nine groups with the highest priority had a first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
Lawmaker Steve Harvey posted a letter on Twitter on Saturday that he said was signed by 63 conservative lawmakers.
“Once all nine priority groups have been protected by the end of April, there is no justification for legislative restrictions remaining,” the letter said.
The letter states that the ‘national priority’ of reopening UK schools for students should be ‘by 8 March’.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab responded to Sky News on Sunday saying he did not think you could set an arbitrary target and could not lead evidence. ‘
The UK has helped one of the world’s fastest vaccination efforts, and Raab said he was ‘on track to reach the first milestone’ to give a first dose to his four top priority groups. The UK has decided to concentrate on giving a first dose to as many people as possible, and then giving the second dose when the stock allows.
England and Scotland have been locked up since the beginning of January, and Wales and Northern Ireland have been locked up since the end of December.
The group, while applauding the “tremendous rate of vaccination”, stressed that the government’s ‘roadmap should demonstrate how the rollout of vaccines should be translated into a return to normal life.’
The group insisted on the reopening of pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues by Easter, “in a way that enables them to be safe but also to operate in a commercially viable way.”
The vaccine should not only “give us an immunity against Covid, but it should also give us a permanent immunity against the restrictions and limitations associated with Covid,” they concluded.