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'Now isn't the time to ease up on the restrictions'
Health Minister Edward Argar on calls for lifting the lockdown.
He won鈥檛 be having a quiet day at the office, easing himself back after a touch and go experience in hospital. Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street to face an agonising dilemma as Prime Minister. Modelling by Imperial College London suggests that lifting the lockdown for all except elderly people would see more than a hundred thousand die. But businesses have been warning about the dire impact the restrictions are having on the economy with predictions of two million people ending up unemployed.
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