Lockdown should be eased for the healthy over-70s because keeping them inside is damaging their mental health, senior doctors warned Boris Johnson last night.
The British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of GPs intervened to say that age alone should not determine people’s ability to go about their daily lives when the government begins easing the lockdown restrictions.
All those aged 70 and over, regardless of health conditions, have been classified as “clinically vulnerable” and told to be especially stringent in minimising contact with those outside their household. Some ministers have said this may need to last until a vaccine is available, which could take a year or more.
But in a statement, the BMA said: “A blanket ban on any section of
