A day of mixed news. Boris tries to get us excited about the fact that up to six people can now meet up, albeit outdoors and at a distance, and we hear that Premier League football will be back, without crowds, from 17 June. Baby steps.
This is to be offset against the grim milestone that now over 100,000 people have died in the USA, whilst we are told that South America may be the new epicentre. Things seem pretty bad in Brazil, with the official death toll past 25,000 and rising rapidly.
I restarted blogging 11 days ago, and in that post commented that the total position was 4.5 million confirmed cases and just over 300,000 deaths. Since then, those figures have increased by 1.1 million and 50,000. Whilst certain countries, ours included, may hopefully be over the worst, on a global scale, this thing isn't slowing down yet.
In amongst all of this, Disney have decided that now is a good time to get the ball rolling with reopening their Florida parks, as reported on the Disney Parks Blog. So far no indication of when the non DVC hotels will open, but DVC resorts to open from 22 June, followed by park openings on 11 July and 15 July. A pretty restricted restart, with reservations required for access, and a number of things missing, including parades and fireworks. Again, baby steps.