• Today is 'Freedom Day', but Johnson will be self-isolating.

    And calls for "caution"

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    Half of the British think the reopening is wrong

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July 19, 2021 "We must ask ourselves, if not now when?". The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says this in connection from the residence in Checkers where he is in solitary confinement, on the occasion of the so-called 

Freedom Day,

the 'day of freedom', in which the United Kingdom reopens and removes the latest restrictions reaching the fourth stage of the road map that the premier himself had set for the progressive exit from the lockdown.



Johnson thus reiterates that he believes the reopening is right now, albeit with caution, precisely because a postponement would make reopening "even more difficult". Some "would have preferred to wait weeks or months" before easing measures further, Johnson acknowledged, however insisting that " it is right to take this step now "."

If we don't reopen now - he explained - we risk finding ourselves faced with an even more difficult situation in the winter months.

Many have been vaccinated and there comes a time when further restrictions do not avoid hospitalizations and deaths but simply postpone the inevitable. "So Johnson remarked:" We have to ask ourselves, if not now, when? ".



Then about his isolation, after coming into contact with the Minister of Health who tested positive for the virus, he said: "

We must accept that self-isolation is part of life in the time of the covid.

I fear that the sacrifice on the part of those of us who have been asked to self-isolate remains important to allow the rest of society to return to something similar to normal, "Johnson said." consequence of life at the time of the covid ". Only"

a small number of workers in essential public services, provided they are double vaccinated, will be exempted from self-isolation

if they come into contact with a positive and will be able to use anti-Covid tests as an alternative " the premier specified.



And on the possibility of recognizing the validity of vaccinations made abroad: "We work with our partners around the world for the mutual recognition" of vaccines, he said in response to the question of a British citizen vaccinated in Italy.



"60% of the current patients are fully vaccinated" 

Covid hospitalizations in the UK "will grow but not as in the past and this thanks to the protection given by vaccines". Although 60% of people currently hospitalized in the UK for Covid are "fully vaccinated," said Sir Patrick Vallance, the British government's scientific adviser at a press conference attended remotely by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, forced into isolation to be came into contact with the Minister of Health Sajid Javid, positive result. This figure, he added, "is not surprising" as most people have now been vaccinated.