Boris Johnson scraps face masks, working from home and vaccine passports in Plan B announcement
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBoris Johnson has announced in Parliament today that Plan B rules in England will be scrapped. Face masks will not be legally required from next Thursday and will not be needed in schools from tomorrow, the Prime Minister confirmed.
Advice to work from home and the use of Covid passports for large venues will be axed from January 26, when the rules are set to expire in law. Read more: Also from Thursday next week, people will no longer be obliged to wear face masks anywhere, including in shops and on public transport.
It comes after reports of Covid infection levels falling in most parts of the UK for the first time since early December. Self-isolation rules for people who have Covid will end on March 24.
Mr Johnson said the legal requirement for people with coronavirus to self-isolate will be scrapped in March - and could be dropped even sooner.
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