COVID-19: Pubs, hairdressers and non-essential shops reopen as lockdown eases
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson urged the nation to behave responsibly as non-essential shops, hairdressers, salons, pubs, restaurants, outdoor attractions and gyms reopened in England.
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In
Wales, people can also visit non-essential shops and travel across the border to other areas of the UK from today.
Meanwhile, people in
Northern Ireland are now allowed to meet 10 others outside as the stay at home order has been scrapped.
April snow showers made
outdoor service at pubs and restaurants a chilly prospect in parts of southern England, but the wintry conditions appeared to do little to dampen enthusiasm.
COVID-19: Pubs, hairdressers and non-essential shops reopen as lockdown eases
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There are now more COVID-19 patients in hospitals in England than there were during the peak of the first wave, new figures show.
NHS England data has revealed that there were 20,426 patients in its hospitals as of 8am on Monday - up from the spring high of 18,974 on 12 April.
The latest UK-wide hospital stats are only available up until 22 December, when 21,286 people with
COVID-19 were in hospital across the four home nations. But that is only slightly less than the 21,683 recorded on 12 April.
It comes as the UK recorded its
highest daily increase in COVID cases with 41,385, while another 357 people have died within 28 days of a positive test - taking the total to 71,109.