If India variant starts a third wave, England’s Covid rules may have to stay

Analysis: hopes of restrictions ending on 21 June are dwindling as highly transmissible variant spreadsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHeralded as “freedom day”, 21 June has been a date circled in the diary by businesses, families and communities alike – a moment when coronavirus restrictions in England are expected to finally end, hopefully in a blaze of summer sunshine.But new data has revealed that the variant of concern first detected in In