For example, it may not have to provide life-saving drugs to everyone in all circumstances.Īction the government is taking to protect lives amid the coronavirus pandemic, including quarantine and isolation policies, is interfering with our other rights. It is not an “absolute” obligation, which means the state may not always be able to fulfil it due to limited resources. Under Article 2 of the Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the UK government and other public authorities have a legal obligation to take positive steps to protect people whose lives are at risk. In the UK, the number of people to die in stands at 31,855. The Covid-19 outbreak has killed more than 280,500 people as it sweeps across the globe. The PM said the country has been at Level Four since the lockdown was introduced almost seven weeks ago and can now “move in steps towards level three”.
The alert level will be run by a new Joint Biosecurity Centre and determined primarily by R – the rate at which the virus is reproducing – and the number of infections in the UK. The scale ranges from the least severe Level One, indicating the disease is no longer present in the UK, through to Level Five – requiring the toughest and strictest measures. He set out the details of a new five-tier Covid Alert System which will “tell us how tough we have to be on our social distancing measures”. “Instead we are taking careful steps to modify our measures,” he said. In an address to the nation on Sunday, the PM stressed that “this is not the time to simply end the lockdown this week”.
The new plans could see the some shops, nurseries and primary schools in England partially reopen from June, and some parts of the hospitality industry could be back from July. Read it here.īoris Johnson has outlined the “first sketch of a roadmap for reopening society,” almost two months after coronavirus lockdown measures were first introduced. Update: 30 June 2020 – EachOther has produced an updated timeline on England’s uneven path to easing lockdown.
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