BBC News For more than a year, personal freedoms have been curtailed to keep Covid at bay. That looks likely to change, with ministers proposing to lift many of the remaining restrictions in England on 19 July. The details, set out on Monday, have sparked intense debate. But what is unarguable is that the nature of the pandemic in the UK has changed - and with it so should many of our assumptions. Covid no longer the deadly virus it was The rollout of the vaccination programme has altered everything, reducing both the individual risk and the wider one to the health system.