Covid-19 update: Boris is back

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• Boris Johnson has asked the public to ‘contain [their] impatience’ to exit the lockdown, in his first live public address since his battle with Covid-19. Katy Balls has the details below.
• Professor Neil Ferguson, the scientist behind the influential Imperial College London model, has said that lifting the lockdown could risk an additional 100,000 deaths by the end of the year.
• Schools in Northern Ireland will stay closed until after the summer holidays, with officials estimating 90% of parents would not send children even if classes reopened.
• Travellers arriving in the UK could face a two-week quarantine as part of the next phase of the government’s strategy.
• Polls show that 42% of under-25s are reporting ‘a deep sense of loneliness’ during lockdown, twice the proportion of the general population.
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