{"id":582299,"date":"2021-07-04T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=582299"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T21:06:05","slug":"u-k-to-make-face-coverings-optional-by-july-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-to-make-face-coverings-optional-by-july-19\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. to make face coverings optional by July 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-k-to-make-face-coverings-optional-by-july-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=582299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2446055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2446055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.K. Housing Minister Robert Jenrick is photographed. (Kirsty Wigglesworth\/AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:51 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, July 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Government officials in the U.K. have announced face coverings would soon become optional for the nation. Housing Minister Robert Jenrick made the remarks on Sunday as part of the government\u2019s recent decision to ease nationwide lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Jenrick went on to say he believed a lot of people have grown tired of wearing masks and the government was ready to take further steps towards returning life to normalcy. Although the housing minister has remained hopeful of the future, he assured the nation wouldn\u2019t completely forget the dangers of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data that we\u2019re seeing, that the prime minister is reviewing at the moment ahead of his decision point, on the roadmap looks very positive,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt does seem as if we can now move forward and move to a much more permissive regime where we move away from any of those restrictions that have been so difficult for us, and as you say learn to live with the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know many people will feel cautious about the easing of restrictions \u2013 that\u2019s completely understandable.<\/p>\n<p>But no date will ever be risk free, so we have to take a broad and balanced view on the different risks to our society. \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pfqd1GCG2t\">pic.twitter.com\/Pfqd1GCG2t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sajidjavid\/status\/1411702530061606915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some U.K. residents have expressed concerns for public safety once face masks become optional. Jenrick added people would have the personal choice to continue to follow restrictions if they pleased to do so, but the government would no longer mandate COVID-19 safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of COVID-19 restrictions in the U.K. are expected to end July 19.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/lithuania-migrant-crisis-sparks-tensions-with-belarus\/\">Lithuania Migrant Crisis Sparks Tensions With Belarus<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. Housing Minister Robert Jenrick is photographed. (Kirsty Wigglesworth\/AP) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 1:51 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, July 4, 2021 Government officials in the U.K. have announced face coverings would soon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}