England is just three days away from ending virtually all Covid restrictions as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveils his Living With Covid plan to the nation. Coming almost two years after the f…
Coming almost two years after the first lockdown, the plan’s headline is that people will no longer have to self-isolate if they test positive from Thursday February 24 and neither will their close contacts, with the UK government leaving the decision in the hands of its English citizens.
Meanwhile, free testing will end in England from April 1, at which point only the most vulnerable people and the elderly will have access to free tests. He unveiled Living with Covid in the past hour in the UK’s House of Commons and will lead a televised press conference in one hour’s time alongside UK Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance.
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