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Here, facemasks won't be mandatory, but carmine thinks it might take a while for his customers to feel comfortable with the old ways. people, they've lost their confidence, how to approach somebody else and may talk, shake their hand. something that, you know, they have been forbidden for so long. wales is moving to alert level zero, but that doesn't equal zero restrictions. masks will still be needed in shops and on public transport and a call for caution remains. alert level zero does not mean the end of coronavirus, and it very certainly does not mean a free for all here in wales. so the pa...

You think about where we were at the start of the delta peak which is hopefully starting to flatten now, we had _ hopefully starting to flatten now, we had far fewer people vaccinated, we had far fewer people vaccinated, we had _ we had far fewer people vaccinated, we had raising case rates and it's inevitable — we had raising case rates and it's inevitable that we had the apt doing exactly _ inevitable that we had the apt doing exactly what it should do, which is identify— exactly what it should do, which is identify close contacts frequently. however. — identify close contacts frequent...

Sense. the way in which this is actually preventing infections is by hugely disrupting the economy. it may be stopping infections but in doing that by keeping everyone at home and putting businesses out of business. that's the real problem here. at be open up the economy or open up the economy, the government needed to take a clear decision on that on the 19th ofjuly. d0 needed to take a clear decision on that on the 19th ofjuly.— that on the 19th ofjuly. do you think businesses _ that on the 19th ofjuly. do you think businesses have - that on the 19th ofjuly. do you think businesses have ha...

Having been "pinged" by the app. last week more than 689,000 people in england and wales were sent alerts on their phones advising them to self—isolate — a record number. our health correspdent naomi grimely explains the change the government intends will ease the so—called "pingdemic". it relates to a particular subgroup, this is the close contacts of people who have tested positive, but crucially who are asymptomatic. previously the app has been looking for their contacts five days prior to them taking a test, the test that turned out to be positive. this time from now on it's going to...

The number testing positive for covid fell today compared with the last week. one scientist i spoke to just before we came on air said if we were going to see a major problem linked to that lifting of restrictions it is likely we would have seen it by now. so the early signs, they are not definite, but the early signs are pretty positive. well, we will take that! there has been lots of talk about the pingdemic and there were some comments about the covid app. this affects a comments about the covid app. tt 3 affects a particular group of people, who test positive but don't have symptoms, no fe...