Contents
Foreword from the Prime Minister ................................................................................... 3
1. The current situation ..................................................................................................... 6
Phase one ....................................................................................................................... 6
Moving to the next phase .............................................................................................. 11
The challenges ahead ................................................................................................... 12
2. Our aims: saving lives; saving livelihoods ............................................................... 15
Health effect .................................................................................................................. 15
Economic effect ............................................................................................................. 16
Social effect ................................................................................................................... 17
Feasibility ...................................................................................................................... 17
Overarching principles ................................................................................................... 17
3. Our approach: a phased recovery ............................................................................. 19
Phase two: smarter controls .......................................................................................... 20
Regular steps of adjustments to current measures ............................................................... 21
"COVID-19 Secure" guidelines ............................................................................................. 22
Protecting the most clinically vulnerable people ................................................................... 22
A more differentiated approach to risk .................................................................................. 23
Reactive measures............................................................................................................... 23
Phase three: reliable treatment ..................................................................................... 23
4. Our roadmap to lift restrictions step-by-step ............................................................ 25
Step One ....................................................................................................................... 25
Work .................................................................................................................................... 25
Schools ................................................................................................................................ 26
Travel ................................................................................................................................... 26
Face-coverings ..................................................................................................................... 27
Public spaces ....................................................................................................................... 27
Protecting the clinically vulnerable ........................................................................................ 28
Enforcement ......................................................................................................................... 29
2 OUR PLAN TO REBUILD: The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy
Parliament ............................................................................................................................29
International travel ................................................................................................................29
Step Two ....................................................................................................................... 30
Social and family contact ......................................................................................................31
Step Three .................................................................................................................... 31
5. Fourteen supporting programmes ............................................................................ 33
1. NHS and care capacity and operating model ............................................................ 33
2. Protecting care homes .............................................................................................. 34
3. Smarter shielding of the most vulnerable .................................................................. 36
4. More effective, risk-based targeting of protection measures..................................... 36
5. Accurate disease monitoring and reactive measures ............................................... 37
Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) ..............................................................................................37
6. Testing and tracing ................................................................................................... 38
7. Increased scientific understanding ............................................................................ 40
8. "COVID-19 Secure" guidelines ................................................................................. 41
9. Better distancing measures ...................................................................................... 41
10. Economic and social support to maintain livelihoods and restore the economy ..... 42
11. Treatments and vaccines ........................................................................................ 43
12. International action and awareness ........................................................................ 44
13. Public communication, understanding and enforcement ........................................ 45
14. Sustainable government structures ........................................................................ 45
6. How you can help........................................................................................................ 47
A collective effort .......................................................................................................... 47
Lending a hand ............................................................................................................. 47
Annex A: Staying safe outside your home ................................................................... 49
Annex B: Summary table: COVID-19 vulnerable groups ............................................. 51
