While we're not 'out of the wood' yet, restrictions are being further relaxed today. Logic dictates, in view of no further reports of outbreaks, that the feared spread of virus may not have occurred and this signal from DEFRA means that the powers-that-be are feeling more comfortable about the situation.

I suppose the decline of livestock in the countryside, in latter years, has its benefits, in that the denser the stock, the more likely it is that spread will occur. The converse also applies.