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
the legal requirement for people to self isolate if they test positive. the prime minister s 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,
of your vaccination status. and here s one reason why. there are quite extensive mutations on the spike protein, which is an important part of the virus, and the reason that is important is that is the bit which all the vaccines are against, so there is a reasonable chance that at least there will be some degree of vaccine escape with this variant. and the new measures will be reviewed just before christmas. how likely is it that those restrictions could be ratcheted up in three weeks time, rather than wound down, and can you say with any confidence at the moment that people can keep their christmas plans? i m pretty confident, or absolutely confident, this christmas will be considerably better than last christmas. but the new measures aren t the entirety of the government s plan b. advice to work from home and vaccine passports in england are still in the back pocket. i was told that boosting the vaccination programme was more important because even if it turns out vaccines are less
and here s one reason why. there are quite extensive mutations on the spike protein, which is an important part of the virus, and the reason that is important is that is the bit which all the vaccines are against, so there is a reasonable chance that at least there will be some degree of vaccine escape with this variant. and the new measures will be reviewed just before christmas. how likely is it that those restrictions could be ratcheted up in three weeks time, rather than wound down, and can you say with any confidence at the moment that people can keep their christmas plans? i m pretty confident, or absolutely confident, this christmas will be considerably better than last christmas. but the new measures aren t the entirety of the government s plan b. advice to work from home and vaccine passports in england are still in the back pocket. i was told that boosting the vaccination programme was more important because even if it turns out vaccines are less good at stopping infection f