UK’s Boris Johnson reveals plans to ease virus restrictions
14 May 2020 |
3:00 pm
The UK prime minister wants those who can't work from home to return to work and also says that from June 1, shops and schools could reopen. His government has been criticized amid suggestions it is too much, too soon.
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