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Monday will be a red-letter day in Britain’s grim and often inept 14-month battle with the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 12, says University College London, the country will triumphantly cross the herd immunity threshold: 73.4 per cent of Britons will have had the virus or been vaccinated.
For all the manifold failings of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government in the past year, as Britain clocked up more than 127,000 coronavirus-related deaths and almost 4.4 million confirmed cases, this is a moment the country will savour.
And savour they will: April 12 also marks a new phase of the road map out of lockdown. For the first time this year, the English can legally sit in pub gardens, dine al fresco at restaurants, go clothes shopping and get a haircut.