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We do this in terms of getting anti—virals to the people who most need them and that is a key decision which needs to be taken over the next period. then the third reason, and it is the one being scaled back but not yet, but will be scaled back, is using them for control. as the prime minister said, as and when the prime minister said, as and when the surveillance shows you need it, what everybody has stressed is the need to be able to stand things up again if necessary, were there to be something serious enough to need it. it is the third area where the biggest changes will occur. i don't t...

The big surveillance tests are the way to do that. if we see something like that, then, that's the moment to get to patrick bos mac point, that's when we ramp up, and we immediately go back all of the things that we learnt to do so —— to patrick's point. we can make some of the tests already in this country, we have labs that we keep going like the rosamund franklin lab, mobile testing units and so on, so what we want is to have a formula of surveillance, followed by search, if necessary, but we can only take the strategy we are adopting today, because of the success of the vaccines and th...

We'll have the latest from across the country, on the impact of storm eunice. and the other main stories here this lunchtime: as russia carries out military drills in the black sea, world leaders meet in munich for a security conference, with the ukraine crisis top of the agenda. health leaders call on the government to keep offering free lateral flow tests, as the country moves towards the next phase of living with covid. and team gb's women curlers are in action this lunchtime at the winter olympics, hoping to bring home a medal. coming up in the sport later in the hour on the bbc news chann...

Doing away with free lateral flow tests for the entire population. it simply costs too much money to continue with that. those tests will be offered to certain populations in the weeks going forward. just not to everyone. the government really relying on very high vaccination rates in this country. more than 80% of the adult population has had a third booster shot and the government also planning to offer boosters, a fourth shot, to people over 75 and to those who are clinically vulnerable. the point being according to the prime minister that it's time to move on, it's time to learn how to liv...

For people with covid, or free lateral flow tests. our health editor hugh pym is here. so what they urging here? well, jane, it is in response to the announcement that is set for monday in terms of the future of remaining legal restrictions in england. the prime minister has already indicated that the subject of the data, he wants to see an end to the requirements isolated self—isolate if you test positive, and it's been widely reported, the possibility that the lateral flow tests will at some stage no longer be available, although probably they will remain so for the most vulnerable. when a...