Boris Johnson defends Covid-19 tier system
Boris Johnson has defended the introduction of the tier system for England, saying it would be wrong to “take our foot off the throat of the beast”. On a visit to pharmaceutical firm Wockhardt at its facility in North Wales, the Prime Minister said England’s lockdown had got the disease under control with the R number – a measure of how quickly the virus is spreading – below 1.
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