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Isle of Man lockdown extended

Mon, 15 Mar 2021


The Manx Government has confirmed the lockdown will be extended by a further week.

During today's COVID-19 briefing, Chief Minister Howard Quayle said: "The Council of Ministers looked at the data this mornin and heard from our contact tracing, public health colleagues and other senior officers."

"We agreed that despite a cautiously optimistic outlook, we would not be able to end safely the circuit break as planned on 23 March. We have therefore decided to extend the lockdown for a week to allow us hopefully to see the data we need to make that decision. So this means that as things stand, the lockdown will continue until at least the first minute of Wednesday 31 March."

"I know this is not what you will want to hear. But we judged that it is the right thing to do to protect our Island’s critical services – not least our hospital and the vaccination programme."

"We will of course continue to review the situation." he added.


 

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