Announced today - the UK government has extended lockdown for a further 3 weeks - it is interesting to note that our lockdown is not as tight as other European countries. They will delay further until a vaccine for Covid 19 had been developed.
AFAIK there has never been a vaccine developed for Coronavirus - SARS has been around for many years. So is herd immunity the only real way out?
The Portuguese population went into self directed lockdown well before their government demanded it and they have had a very low contract and death rate - will they get hit hard when they come out of lockdown?
In the meantime in the UK we have had a steady stream of victims but flattened the curve and it looks like the health service will cope if things continue as they are.
It’s still too early to say what will happen and whose approach will end up being the best. I suspect that, even though countries come out of internal lockdown, there will still be restrictions on foreign visitors ie business only, for a while yet.
Hopefully our trip through France and Spain will go ahead at the end August beginning of September but I’m not holding my breath.
Cheers
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