UK Finance Chief Rules out More COVID-19 Lockdowns

UK Finance Chief Rules out More COVID-19 Lockdowns
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak arrives at The Sun's Who Cares Wins Awards in London, Britain, on Sept. 14, 2021. May James/Reuters
Alexander Zhang
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Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak has ruled out more COVID-19 lockdowns, saying in a newspaper interview that there must not be a return to “significant economic restrictions.”

In an interview with The Times of London published on Saturday, Sunak, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said that Britain is in a different phase of battling the pandemic due to the vaccine scheme and that the economy is the priority now.