Boris Johnson has outlined why the government is dropping almost all Covid restrictions on 19 July in England. 
In a press conference, the prime minister said: 'We must be honest with ourselves that if we can’t reopen our society in the next few weeks, when we will be helped by the arrival of summer, and by the school holidays, we must ask ourselves, when will we be able to return to normal?'
From 19 July, Johnson said that people in England must use their own judgment to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 infections amid the scrapping of hundreds of regulations on mask-wearing, social distancing, gatherings and home working
Boris Johnson says most Covid rules likely to end in England on 19 July