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New Boss New Rules To End Covid Restrictions

The UK witnessed the changing of the guard when it comes to the Health Secretary on Monday as the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid took the new position of boss of the health service.

In what are unprecedented times with the global pandemic and what is surely one of the most important jobs in these times went to a man that over the past 16 months has called for businesses to be allowed to re-open.

Indeed many political analysts say Mr Javid is a “lockdown sceptic” which too many businesses that are struggling because of current restrictions hope that what the new Health Secretary is saying will be true.

In his first interview over the weekend when former Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigned over breaches in his own COVID rules on social distancing when found to be having an affair with an aide within his office. Mr Javid said: “We are still in a pandemic and I want to see that come to an end as soon as possible and that will be my most immediate priority, to see that we can return to normal as soon and as quickly as possible.” He went on to say that when the current restrictions are lifted that they are “irreversible”.

Those words if true will be music to the ears of so many businesses including casinos, events, nightclubs and every other sector that works closely with customers to bring them face to face real live experiences.

Indeed in a recent study it was found that currently there are fourteen times more deaths in the UK occur from flu and pneumonia than COVID. No-one is saying that the current pandemic is not serious, but after some 16-months plus and now with the majority of the adult population vaccinated and indeed the elderly and vulnerable having all been vaccinated the time is now right to open up fully without government restrictions.

Scientists have said for a long time now that COVID will be with us for many years to come if not forever, social activities are a huge part of life and we all need it to return to normal. Over the past year it has been found that depression and so many other mental health issues are rising because of the government restrictions, the time has now come to get back to “a normal” and it seems that the new Health Secretary also believes that.

The next few weeks will tell if what he is saying will be the truth and for so many both in business and personal life it needs now to be true.