Leeds news LIVE: Reaction as lockdown restrictions ease across the UK
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The Prime Minister said “now everyone must play their part” as England pushed ahead with the third stage of the road map out of lockdown on Monday.
Pubs and restaurants will be able to welcome customers back indoors, visits to the homes of friends and family can resume and the foreign holiday ban has ended.
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Hide AdHugs and other physical contact between households are also permitted for the first time since restrictions began more than a year ago.
But the measures were eased as top scientists called for caution and warned of a “perilous moment”, with the Indian variant feared to be as much as 50% more transmissible than the Kent strain.
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