Danger AheadIt is also a political headache for the premier, who is facing opposition from members of Parliament his own Conservative party to any moves to delay unlocking the economy.
Johnson has defended his “cautious" approach to ensure that lifting restrictions, saying he wanted each step to be “irreversible," making the lockdown at the start of the year the country’s last.The number of confirmed infections of the India strain more than doubled in the past week to 1,313 from 520, according to Public Health England.