Name: Lockdown eased across UK allowing groups of people to meet outside - BBC News
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in Northern Ireland, people have been able to meet up in groups for some days.

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Already, Whales is expected to set out its plans tomorrow.

Not being able to see loved ones has been one of the toughest parts of this nine week locked down.

So what people make of today's announcement?

Danny Savage has been talking to people in Harrogate, in the open spaces of Harrogate.

Today, sunbathers were keeping their distance from each other, but very soon pairs of people may grow to groups of six.

I think people do have to bear in mind if it is six that they stick to six and don't take advantage of it week after week after week without being able to communicate with people and meet up with friends.

And so by So yes, I think it's an excellent idea.

Social distancing is still at the heart of easing restrictions in England.

Partially reopening primary schools and open air markets from Monday could be good for town centres, and dentists have been told they can open from June.

The eighth People, though, still want reassurance.

You know the thought of opening up full time again.

You know who's gonna customer Children on bond.

But then don't feel like I want him to go about school just yet, so I'd send them back in September.

The thing is, what people will emerge to see here will be rather different than before.

Lock down shops which were here before, are gone, leaving those left worried.

You wouldn't expect to see empty spaces on the lights of Bond Street.

No one wants a neighbor that that's a boarded up shop.

It all doesn't inspire confidence in the visitor.

There's frustration to this hotel has been accommodating key workers throughout locked down, but the sun trap beer garden will still have to remain closed.

I would say, Boris, trust us, those that can prove that they can do it safely like we've done for the last nine or 10 weeks, give us a chance.

But for some people in businesses, things are still moving too slowly.

Danny Savage BBC News Harrogate Scotland is easing its lock down measures from tomorrow, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.

It follows what she called a sustained downward trend in the spread of the virus.

The new rules cover some outdoor activities.

Thes includes sunbathing Gulf on fishing.

Members of two households will be able to meet outdoors for a picnic or a barbecue in groups of up to eight people and garden centres and drive through take ways can reopen.

These measures amount to the first of four phases in Scotland's plans to reopen the country with more.

Scotland is taking some cautious steps out of lock down a sunny weekend.

We'll see people allowed to meet up with those from one other household up to eight people gathering in total as long as they're outside and two meters apart.

These greater freedoms go alongside a new contact tracing system test and protect.

Everyone with possible Corona virus symptoms is urged to book a test.

If the result is positive, all their recent close contacts will be traced until to self isolate for two weeks, test and protect relies heavily on public cooperation.

It only works if everybody sticks to the rules, so public confidence in the system is essential.

A significant Corona virus outbreak happened at a Nike conference in this Edinburgh hotel in late February, when track and trace walls government policy, there's controversy over why some people who came close to the Nike delegates were never contacted.

10 of them spent over an hour in this show being fitted for kills.

The manager, who was in very close contact with those delegates, later developed flu like symptoms, and she's angry.

She was never contacted and told she could be a risk to self isolate it.

I wouldn't have spent time in West my uncle li dot mom, my fiance's mother.

So you worried that you endangered other people because you didn't know that you were at risk?

Yes, Yet questions persist about that conference as Nichola Sturgeon introduces a new testing regime in order that people can try to have full confidence in your test and protect regime.

Can you tell us, have you changed the guidelines for who will be contacted after someone has tested positive for Corona virus, so the definition of a contact for tests and protect is threefold.

Firstly, it would be members of your household.

Secondly, face to face contact, which Gregor went into detail a vote on Tuesday in terms of what that means.

And thirdly, if you have been within two meters of somebody for repeated or 15 minutes or more, has not been a change to the guidance.

Good ended up face to face contact in much more detail.

No, so that there's a full understanding with the contact.

People in Scotland are being asked to comply with test and protect.

 There's no legal requirement to do so, but the government says it will only work if everybody plays their part. 