{"id":32132,"date":"2021-05-16T05:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/johnson-must-think-again-on-plans-to-relax-covid-rules"},"modified":"2021-05-16T05:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T20:45:35","slug":"johnson-must-think-again-on-plans-to-relax-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32132","title":{"rendered":"Johnson \u2018must think again on plans to relax Covid rules\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top adviser warns of India variant impact as scientists urge delay in lockdown changes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/borisjohnson\" title=\"\">Boris Johnson<\/a> was under mounting pressure on Saturday to reconsider Monday\u2019s relaxation of Covid rules in England because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/13\/india-covid-variant-is-it-threat-uk-reopening-plans\">threat posed by the India variant<\/a>. His own advisers and independent health experts raised fears that it could lead to a surge in hospital admissions, especially among young adults.<\/p>\n<p>From Monday people will be able to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people or two households will be permitted to meet indoors. Pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers indoors. Indoor entertainment such as museums, cinemas and children\u2019s play areas can also open along with theatres, concert halls, conference centres and sports stadiums.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/johnson-must-think-again-on-plans-to-relax-covid-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top adviser warns of India variant impact as scientists urge delay in lockdown changesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson was under mounting pressure on Saturday to reconsider Monday\u2019s relaxation of Covid rules in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,1066,62,914,2004,4,299,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-jonathan-ashworth","category-politics","category-science","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32133,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32132\/revisions\/32133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}