“There had been a hope and a desire to be able to give people more of a normal Christmas if that were possible, they accepted that was dependent on the R rate, they had a desire to keep that under or about one, and I believe they weighed carefully and talked at length about the impact of lockdown, the impact of the prolonged restrictions about the ability to maintain adherence to those restrictions, and I think they had a real concern for the impact of prolonged restrictions, particularly on vulnerable groups, they were concerned about mental health,” she said.
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