UK Eases Lockdown Restrictions but Many Flout Guidelines

UK Eases Lockdown Restrictions but Many Flout Guidelines
People walk past a closed street food and live music venue in Portobello Market in west London on June 1, 2020. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON—The UK eased more lockdown restrictions on June 1 despite warnings from some health officials of another spike in coronavirus infections, especially if Britons persisted in flouting the new guidelines.

Most of the changes were in England, where a number of schools reopened to some—but not all—younger children for the first time since they closed in mid-March.