Bbc your questions. Germany is relaxing covid restrictions on travellers from the uk from tomorrow, theyll be able to enter the country even if theyre not residents. A Draft Law is being introduced to parliament to prevent Asylum Seekers staying in the uk if theyve already passed through a safe country. Schools in england will find out this afternoon how the government plans to relax the bubble rules that mean large numbers of pupils are sent home if a single child has a positive Covid Test. Last week more than 375 Thousand children in england were off school while isolating for ten days. The education secretary, gavin williamson, is expected to say the changes will come into effect on the 19th Ofjuly when most of englands covid regulations are set to be scrapped. Social distancing will be scrapped for the first time in 16 months. Face coverings will no longer be a legal requirement. Limits on socialising will be lifted bringing an to end to the rule of six indoors. And the advice to w
At Ellesmere Port. And at 2. 45pm, well be going across the uk to find out more about the stories affecting you from ourjournalists up and down the country. Stay with us for that. Hello and welcome if you have just joined us. The Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that people, whove had both doses of a Covid Vaccine, will no longer have to self isolate if they come into contact with a positive case of the virus. The change which will come into force on 16th August, and will also apply to people under the age of 18 who are currently not eligible for vaccination. And in the last half hour, the Education Secretary Gavin williamson has announced an end to the bubble system in English Schools with no more Self Isolation for pupils who come into contact with positive cases. Heres what Mr Williamson had to say. Though keeping children inconsistent groups was essential to control the spread of the virus when our population was less vaccinated, we recognise that the system of bubbles a
The Health Secretary also announced unvaccinated under 185 who come into contact with a positive case will no longer have to self isolate. Also this lunchtime. Covid related absence among School Pupils in england is the highest since students returned in march. The government is preparing to announce how to relax the rules. Vauxhall announces a £100 million investment in electric vehicles securing more than 1,000 jobs at Ellesmere Port. Challenging the Abortion Laws a woman with down S Syndrome goes to the High Court, saying the rules discriminate against people like her and her husband. The artist Damien Hirst tells us hes dealt with Lockdown Anxiety by changing tack no more studded skulls, instead hes been painting cherry blossom. I always just try to keep reinventing myself. Yeah. My mum used to say to me, theres enough horror in the world, cant you just paint flowers . So maybe she got to me, eventually. And here at St Georges Park, Englands Players for their final Training Sessio