Boris Johnson has issued a plea for people to use a "heavy dose of caution" as lockdown rules ease further on Monday. Pubs and restaurants will be able to reopen indoors and the ban on foreign travel is lifted, allowing holidaymakers to jet off for some sun for the first time in months.
People will also be allowed to hug friends and family from different households for the first time since Covid restrictions were imposed more than a year ago.
But the Prime Minister urged the public to remain cautious despite the greater freedoms, as concerns mount over the spread of the Indian Covid variant.
Surge testing is being ramped up in hotspot areas and the vaccine rollout is being accelerated to prevent the new strain from derailing the route out
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