According to the agenda drawn up by the Government, as of this Monday, wearing a facemask will no longer be mandatory in indoor places, and there will be no limitations on numbers of people allowed to meet in homes, parks or sporting events. The nightclubs were also allowed to reopen after more than a year closed.

In a message spread on Sunday from his country residence in the outskirts of London where he is in self-isolation after were in contact with a person infected with Covid-19, Johnson called on the population to maintain precautions.

The political opposition and the scientists consider, however, that decreeing a return to normal life at a time when contagions are around 50,000 a day, and with a prediction of reaching 100,000 cases very soon, is reckless and irresponsible.

So far, 35.9 million people, equivalent to 68.3 percent of 53 million adults living in the United Kingdom, have completed the Covid-19 vaccination plan.

The country accumulates more than 5.4 million contagions and 128,708 deaths since the pandemic broke out.

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