Coronavirus update: second spike in coronavirus cases would trigger another lockdown, warns Raab

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Dominic Raab has warned that a "second spike" in UK coronavirus cases would trigger a second lockdown which would "prolong the economic pain we are all going through".

Speaking at the daily Covid-19 press briefing in Downing Street, the Foreign Secretary insisted that the UK is "making progress through the peak of the virus".

But Mr Raab, who is deputising for Boris Johnson while he recovers at Chequers, added: "But we're not out of the woods yet, as Sage advised last week. That's why the measures we introduced must remain in place for the time being.

“The greatest risk for us now, if we eased up on our social distancing rules too soon, is that we would risk a second spike in the virus with all the threats to life that would bring and then the risk of a second lockdown which would prolong the economic pain we are all going through.”

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