The NHS Test and Trace system will be made more "proportionate", Sajid Javid has promised, with double-vaccinated contacts expected to be spared the need to self-isolate.

The Health Secretary will update MPs from 12.30pm on the latest plans for easing restrictions after Boris Johnson promised the wholesale lifting of coronavirus rules in England.

Mr Javid will use his Commons statement to set out how the contact tracing system will operate in future, saying it is "absolutely right" that for people who have received both vaccination doses "we can take a different approach".

Reports last week suggested ministers intend to drop all legal requirements on those who have had both jabs if they encounter a confirmed case, with advice for them to take a daily test but no compulsion to do so.

Mr Javid also told MPs on Monday that ministers would set out "how we intend to exempt under-18s who are close contacts from the requirement to self-isolate".

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