Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King s College London, said he believes Britons should definitely be encouraged to meet in small groups next month.
More than 100 calls to police every day about people breaching Covid rules
Large gatherings for weddings, funerals and even birthday parties have been reported across the West Midlands region
West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson
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There are still more than 100 reports of people breaching coronavirus regulations every day across the West Midlands, it has been revealed.
Worcestershire County Council has set up surge testing in the WR3 postcode after cases of the variant with no links to international travel were identified.
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is aiming to implement a mobility-as-a-service application for transport in the region.
It has begun to look for an off-the-shelf solution that could be used by other public bodies and transport operators for at least five years with the possibility of extensions.
The authority has defined mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) as the ability to use a single interface, usually through a mobile application, to pan, book and pay for journeys on different types of transport. These include walking and cycling.
The market notice says that along with the application it wants to set up a journey planner, which would be exposed as an API for use in other systems and services, and a bespoke data integration layer that it would own and control. WMCA is currently assessing whether to procure the different elements through a single or multiple tenders.