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PM Confirms Removal Of COVID Restrictions

UK

Following a bruising PMQs session, Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a statement confirming that 'Plan B' COVID restrictions will be removed in England from Thursday.

  • The 'work from home' order, requirement for COVID passports at large events, and mandatory face masks will all come to an end.
  • Johnson says that if the data allows he will seek to bring forward a vote on removing the legal requirement for those with COVID to self-isolate from late March.
  • UK becoming the first developed market to emerge from a large Omicron wave of infections, with PM talking of how COVID will become endemic and to be treated like the flu.

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