When the Roadmap was originally announced the timeline was:
Step One – September 14 (officially 11.59pm September 13); Step Two – September 28; Step Three – October 26 (subject to meeting triggers) and Step Four (Last Step) – November 23 and finally a COVID Normal.
Now initial progress was excellent we were in front of the curves and so it was announced that Step 3 (or parts of it) could be earlier October 19) as the triggers were all tracking a head of schedule. Then things regressed somewhat so that we were on track with one of the original triggers, but behind with the more crucial mystery case trigger (A trigger that now will not be used, but where they have indicated that they will be very much focussed on mystery cases and the story behind them. They clearly want the number of mystery cases to be driven down yet.).
What we now have is "
Step 3 Light" (or relaxation of Step 2 restrictions) as of 11.59pm 18 Oct and
"Step 3 Almost" on 11.59pm 1 Nov. These adaptions being allowed by low new cases per day, but clearly being modified due the fear that mystery cases could spike things up again if too much random mixing is allowed too quickly.
So we have gained some benefits 8 days earlier and most of the originally planned Step 3 measures 6 days later.
However given that modelling is not precise to still essentially get to Step 3 roughly as originally planned is still excellent news.
