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COVID-19: Wokingham MP calls for lockdown restrictions to ease again

by Jess Warren
June 5, 2021
in Coronavirus, Featured, Politics
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THE MP for Wokingham has called for the Government to speed up the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.

On Tuesday, Sir John Redwood posted on social media and said: “Just get on with relaxing the lockdown. 

“Vaccines have brought the serious cases and deaths right down which is what matters.”

Cllr John Halsall, leader of the borough council told Wokingham.Today the infection rate has been “marching up”.

It now sits at 45.6 per 100,000 people. 

READ MORE: Covid rates continue to rise in Wokingham

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