Good Afternoon Sense-ibles,
This week we finally received some clarity as to what normal life might look like in the future.
A new four-step plan to ease England's lockdown could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.
Shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April in England under plans set out by the PM.
From 17 May, two households might be allowed to mix in homes, while the rule of six could apply in places like pubs.
It requires four tests on vaccines, infection rates and new coronavirus variants to be met at each stage.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs the plan aimed to be "cautious but irreversible" and at every stage, decisions would be led by "data not dates".
There was "no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain nor indeed a zero-Covid world", he said.
We will of course be monitoring this and will give you information when and if anything changes.
M.T. Omoniyi — Editor-In-Chief
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