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of restrictions in england will go ahead on monday 19th july. politicians have been touring the tv studios ahead of the announcement. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake is here. jonathan, any doubt at all that mr johnson and his ministers will indeed, as scheduled, live those remaining covid restrictions on the 19? bill remaining covid restrictions on the 19? �* , . ., ., , remaining covid restrictions on the 19? , ., ., 19? all expectations are that the prime minister _ 19? all expectations are that the prime minister will _ 19? all expectations are that the prime minister will tomorrow i 19? all expectations are that the - prime minister will tomorrow confirm that all remaining legal restrictions will be lifted in england onjuly restrictions will be lifted in england on july the 19th. restrictions will be lifted in england onjuly the 19th. that represents a step four in the route out of lockdown in england and it was delayed from the original date ofjuly the 21st, but the government says the progress of the vaccination programme now means that it is safe and the right time to lift those remaining restrictions, but not without some debate about the way they are going about it and the guidance that will be issued in
recover the care backlogs and we have a very, very busy urgent and emergency care and it's very striking about how many people say they saw record numbers of people in their emergency departments injune their emergency departments in june and their emergency departments injune and then we have about 10,000 beds fewer than we normally have so we've lost about 10% capacity due to infection control and on top of this we have the problem that because community infection rates of covid are rising we have large numbers of staff having to solve isolate on those numbers will increase is, after the restrictions get relaxed on july the after the restrictions get relaxed onjuly the 19th, after the restrictions get relaxed on july the 19th, what we will see as those numbers who have to solve isolate rise, so if you added together, what you find is that even relatively small numbers of covid—19 cases will put pressure on hospitals and that basically means that the one in the hospital can control is the speed with which you get through the speed with which you get through the backlogs, so wejust the speed with which you get through the backlogs, so we just want people to be aware that as we release the
the success of the vaccine programme is saving lives and has severely weakened the link between cases and hospitalisations. chris hopson is the chief executive of nhs providers which represents hospital trusts in england. if you talk to hospital chief executives, what they tell you as they are going absolutely full pelt to recover the care backlog. we have a very busy accident and emergency care, very striking how many people say they saw record numbers of people in their emergency departments injune. as you know, we had then got about 10,000 beds fewer than we normally have so we've lost about 10% of capacity because of infection control and what we have on top is this problem of the fact because community infection rates of covid are rising we have large numbers of staff self isolating and of course those numbers will increase if as after the restrictions get relaxed onjuly the 19th, what we will see is those numbers are people who have to
the springboks were forced to suspend training and place their squad into isolation because of an outbreak of coronavirus. second row lood de jager returned a positive test and on the grounds of his close contact with a number of players, the whole squad are having to quarantine. it is the second time the springboks have been forced to take such measures during the build—up to the test series against the british and irish lions, which opens in cape town onjuly 24. the tour de france resumes on tuesday with the stage 10 taking the riders out of the alps down to the slopes of the rhone valley into valence. tadej pogaca will start the day in the race leader's yellow jersey after winning stage 8 mark cavendish will be hoping to add to his tally of sprint wins as the race heads closer to paris, while the rest of the field will be hoping that the second week is less eventful than the first. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport team, goodbye. let's talk about what was
by the vaccine. conservative lockdown sceptics were noticeably less critical than before. we will never again sacrifice free enterprise, freedom of association and indeed, freedom of worship in order to manage hospital admissions everagain, will we? madam deputy speaker, i take it from that that my right honourable friend is pleased with today's announcements. there were few details on what this all means for international travel, for self—isolation or for schools. but with many pupils absent for covid—related reasons, sajid javid promised more information within days. onjuly the 19th, it is our plan to remove bubbles and to end a requirement for early years setting schools and colleges to routinely carry out contact tracing and i will have more to say on how we intend to exempt under 18s to close contacts
the nhs is actually in quite a pressured position. we have got a lot of covid cases coming through the door. not as high as previous waves but still causing pressure. also we have the challenges of recovering the backlog of care the nhs faces. the mantra of the ministers is changing. learning to live with the virus is now the emphasis. scotland is not expected to remove all legal restrictions the end of next month. neither wales nor northern ireland have committed to a date for returning to normal or something close. ido miss i do miss in westminster, as you can see. —— lets get the latest now from our chief political correspondent adam fleming. so adam, it sounds like the government is increasingly optimistic that all restrictions will be lifted onjuly the 19th? the vaccine is working so well. tt
astonishing what the various institutes here can do to keep people alive, particularly older people alive, particularly older people like me. it is people alive, particularly older people like me.— people alive, particularly older people like me. it is good to have ou with people like me. it is good to have you with us. _ people like me. it is good to have you with us, thank _ people like me. it is good to have you with us, thank you _ people like me. it is good to have you with us, thank you for- people like me. it is good to havej you with us, thank you for getting up you with us, thank you for getting up early to cut through the papers. let�*s look at the front pages. the front pages are very welcome because it is the football on most of the front pages, sunday mirror has a large image of england players celebrating their demolition of ukraine. the sunday telegraph has a similar. it also says borisjohnson signed off on plans to end compulsory mask wearing onjuly 19. compulsory mask wearing onjuly19. there is football on the front of the sunday times which also give credit where it is more certainly due to emma raducanu, the youngest british woman to reach the last 16 of wimbledon since 1968. the mail on
have been number crunching the data and they are saying that we are looking at a million new cases between now and july the 19th. and onjuly the 19th you will be 90,000 cases a day if it carries on a present trends. already more cases that all of europe put together and doubled the number of cases as in america, and it seems to me that borisjohnson is putting all of the eggsin borisjohnson is putting all of the eggs in one basket which is the vaccine basket and while the vaccine programme has been a massive success, and yes it has broken the link with mortality it has not broken with morbidity. and as with the figures we are talking about more people get very ill and more people will die. the problem obviously is what sort of pressures on the nhs is not going to cause? it won't be anything like it has been in the past. but still could stress
are undertaking a retrofit... i'm not interested in 2018. i'm interested in the day after the 9th of may 2016. and whether you were then delivering all lanes running without that technology. because you said that you would not. sorry, i said that we would be part of... part of standard roll—out going forward? yes. and it was. going forward was as of may 2018. come on! i'm sorry, that it is not good enough. when you say going forward, it doesn't mean in two years' time. that doesn't need me as a lawyer to say that. we all know that is the case. i think sometimes it is better to put the hands up and just say it turned out not to be the case because we had supply issues or something else. but to give me that answer, i'm sorry, it is just not good enough for parliament. now, borisjohnson may "devoutly hope" that covid restrictions are lifted onjuly the 19th and it's fair
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