- PRIME minister Boris Johnson announces lifting further Covid restrictions, including those on personal contact that will allow people to hug loved ones, from May 17.
- Things that will reopen
- Pubs (indoor serving)
- Restaurants (indoor serving)
- Steam rooms
- Saunas
- Cinemas
- Bingo halls
- Bowling alleys
- Big events (with capacity limits)
- Sports stadiums (with capacity limits)
- Care home residents now allowed up to five visitors instead of two.
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