here s our health editor hugh pym. everyday life with covid has involved many guidelines on how to keep safe that won t change. but the big shift tomorrow will be the announcement that remaining laws governing public behaviour are set to be scrapped in england, including the requirement to self isolate after testing positive. and pcr testing sites will be wound down, though the government says the ability to monitor the virus will be maintained. free lateral flow test kits are likely to be cut back, with availability only for those most at risk and that could prove controversial. we need resilience but we don t need to keep, for instance on testing, we don t need to keep spending at a rate of £2 billion a month, which is what we were doing in january. the key thing is that people have access to free testing, they know their status and they do the right thing by staying at home. scotland s health secretary said the uk government must continue to fund testing in any nation where there
for people to self isolate if they test positive. in a bbc interview today the prime minister also indicated that he wants to reduce the amount of testing. here s our health editor hugh pym everyday life with covid has involved many guidelines on how to keep safe that won t change. but the big shift tomorrow will be the announcement that remaining laws governing public behaviour are set to be scrapped in england, including the requirement to self isolate after testing positive. and pcr testing sites will be wound down, though the government says the ability to monitor the virus will be maintained. free lateral flow test kits are likely to be cut back, with availability only for those most at risk and that could prove controversial. we need resilience but we don t need to keep, for instance on testing, we don t need to keep spending at a rate of £2 billion a month, which is what we were doing injanuary. the key thing is that people have access to free testing, they know their status
self isolator that is positive. the premise has also indicated he was to reduce the amount of testing. everyday life with covid has involved many guidelines on how to keep safe that won t change. but the big shift tomorrow will be the announcement that remaining laws governing public behaviour are set to be scrapped in england, including the requirement to self isolate after testing positive. and pcr testing sites will be wound down, though the government says the ability to monitor the virus will be maintained. free lateral flow test kits are likely to be cut back, with availability only for those most at risk and that could prove controversial. we need resilience but we don t need to keep, for instance on testing, we don t need to keep spending at a rate of £2 billion a month, which is what we were doing in january. the key thing is that people have access to free testing, they know their status and they do the right thing by staying at home. scotland s health secretary said th
following tomorrow s announcement, but there have been warnings that detailed guidance for the public will be needed. restrictions can end, but we need that to happen with provisions for people that are clinically vulnerable. we need that to happen for those that need to take time off work to be able to do that safely, both for their health and their finances, so there needs to be an awful lot of planning around this. it cannot be as simple as restrictions end for everyone, this is freedom day for everyone. the latest survey by the office for national statistics suggests that just under 3 million people in the uk had the virus in the week ending the 12th of february, lower than the peak but still relatively high. but, with daily covid hospital admissions, there has been a continuing downward trend, from over 2000 at one stage to closer at 1000 today. the prime minister said today that testing would be at a much lower level, and pcr testing sites
yeah. so i think we just need to go very carefully, i we need to monitor carefully and be prepared to react pcr testing sites will be wound down in england and free lateral flow tests cut back. that is proving more contentious. zoe is a secondary school teacher. she thinks the relaxation of isolation rules may be good for her children and other pupils without symptoms, but not necessarily everyone. for the sake of getting people back to work, etc, i think it s very good, but we do have vulnerable members of staff in our school, and i just think they may feel very differently about it to how i do. moving on from restrictions at this centre, my skate world, and in the wider community, they ll still have to learn to live with covid. hugh pym, bbc news, eastbourne. many business leaders particularly in the hospitality sector have been calling for a return to normality as soon as possible.