UK PM Johnson sets out post-lockdown measures
Just over two weeks after Johnson introduced a national lockdown for England to try to tame a spiraling increase in new coronavirus cases, he said the measures had reduced COVID infection rates and would be eased on Dec. 2 as promised.
Johnson has been under pressure to scrap the lockdown from lawmakers in his Conservative Party, where many have threatened to vote against any new restrictions they consider overly damaging to the economy without more evidence of their effect in stemming infections.
"We are going to go back ... to a regional, tiered approach," he told parliament virtually from his Downing Street office where he is self-isolating.
Trying to ease the concerns among skeptics within his party, he said the measures would run until the end of March when vaccines and wider testing might offer a way out of the crisis.
