After weeks of huddling under dripping table brollies and braving chilly beer gardens, pub goers can finally drink indoors tomorrow as the next stage of lifting lockdown comes in.
Some foreign holidays are also back on the cards, along with hugging, trips to the cinema and theatre and staying overnight with family and friends.
But experts urged caution as the highly-contagious Indian variant of Covid rampages across the country, sparking fears our regained freedoms may be short-lived.
There are now at least 1,300 cases of the mutation in the UK with “hotspots” in Greater Manchester, London and Glasgow. And scientists are warning it is quickly becoming dominant.
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