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  • the Channel Island of Guns E is set to become the first part of the British Isles to remove nearly all its locked down restrictions.

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  • He hasn't had any new cases of covert 19 for over three weeks, and schools there will be going back with distancing measures from the eighth of June.

  • But the tourism industry there has been losing millions since the pandemic began.

  • As Robert Hall reports in a Gun Z Garden, eight week old Charlie Flood is meeting his wider family.

  • Until now, his grandparent's have only had glimpses off him at a distance.

  • Today, the family can hold Charlie and hug each other for the first time since locked down began.

  • I was so fortunate because in England they can't do that now.

  • It's just it must be so, so difficult for them.

  • We're just really, really lucky.

  • It feels absolutely amazing.

  • Is been a long time coming?

  • I didn't feel stayed ice.

  • I can't put him down.

  • On the 16th of May, Ganzi moved into Phase three.

  • If the lock down exits plan guarantee, families and friends can meet up under what's called a bubble system, gradually widening their contacts earned his success against Cove in 19 is down to a community effort.

  • Social distancing, combined with testing and tracing, has brought new cases down to zero in a week's time.

  • Most locked down measures will disappear completely at the peak off.

  • When we were seeing, most of our cases were regularly doing over 100 up to 126 Sundays, up to 180 tests a day.

  • In UK terms, that's over 100,000.

  • Tests per day in Jersey to the curve of new cases has flattened close to zero, and life looks almost normal.

  • Shops business isn't outside, eateries have reopened, but social distancing measures remain in place, and Islanders have been advised to use masks if they can.

  • Beaches, though, remained mostly deserted on.

  • That sums up the dilemma now facing island governments.

  • Getting Kobe 19 figures down to or close to zero is a cause for celebration, but the celebration might be short lived.

  • The Channel Islands know that they can't remain within a sealed bubble indefinitely.

  • They must open their borders if they are to slow the decline in their economies.

  • Latest figures from Jersey show the island is losing £120 million a month from its economy.

  • Increases in testing and tracing might replace quarantine, but even a gradual return of sea and air links could reverse the progress made to keep keep in a bubble and keep cases low.

  • But at the same time, if you don't have immunity, then you don't really know what's gonna happen is things open up?

  • But I think we should say it out loud, say it clear.

  • But then you better test people coming in, and that's gonna be the problem.

  • I think you know.

  • As politicians and health experts debate their next moves, Islanders are savoring their freedom.

  • Robert Hall, BBC News in the Channel Islands lock Down has presented real challenges for many people's mental health.

  • A new survey suggests that young people are particularly affected, with two and five saying they're experiencing increased levels of anxiety.

  • The reports published US Part of Mental Health Awareness Week, has prompted calls for greater kindness in society.

  • As Ashley John Baptiste reports, It's a lot of meals.

  • Everyone has been impacted by the Corona virus locked down despite challenges many people are getting by through acts of kindness.

  • Johnny is a chef in London who's been furloughed.

  • And now next they're gonna go home so happy he is using his time and talents for another purpose to help rough sleepers.

  • According to the Mental Health Foundation, almost 2/3 of adults say that being kind to others has a positive impact on their mental health.

  • Extra water, something that Johnny knows all too well.

  • We didn't like 250 meals every day, definitely warming for sure.

  • It's nice to see that what we're doing is actually making an impact.

  • Being kind anyone is gonna make make you feel better about yourself.

  • Yet while some of finding ways of coping for many, the pressure of a national locked down is taken its toll, particularly when it comes to young people.

  • According to the princes trust, 43% of young people say their anxiety levels have increased due to the pandemic, and nearly half say they don't feel in control of their lives.

  • 16 year old Owen Hardin, from Brighton was struggling with his mental health at the start of the lock down soon after he went missing from home.

  • His mom, Stella, has seen the impact.

  • It's definitely important that we talk about the every considering it's always able to know more about mental and emotional, have locked down young people, perhaps haven't developed into the calm.

  • I thought human beings that we've become a whole most wallow place.

  • Sometimes things seem really, really huge them they might make snap decisions and mental have my deteriorate more quickly than some of his old.

  • Almost 2/3 of people around the UK surveyed for the Mental Health Foundation said that when people are kind to them, mental health improves.

  • For many, it has a vital role.

  • During the lock down, We are calling for a much kinder society, one that really protects and really prioritizes our mental health.

  • And that would mean not just tracking economic progress are also measuring our health and well being.

the Channel Island of Guns E is set to become the first part of the British Isles to remove nearly all its locked down restrictions.

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