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Consequences," when most covid restrictions are lifted in england. rule changes making fully vaccinated people exempt from having to quarantine if they've had contact with an infected person, aren't due to come into effect untll mid august. downing street says the nhs contact tracing app remains "one of the best tools we have" to tackle coronavirus. with more, here's sarah campbell. the pressure on business is unrelenting. in the last week we had our head of production, he got pinged, then the guy below him, the manufacturing manager, he got pinged. then the distribution manager got pinged and...

The pressure on business is unrelenting. in the last week we had our head of production, he went and got pinged, then the guy below him, the manufacturing manager, he got pinged. then the distribution manager got pinged and then the guy who is managing our new tap yard which was due to open on friday, he also got pinged. this brewery should have been welcoming 100 business customers to the opening of a new on—site bar this evening but with nine members of staff self isolating the event is off and the new bar will remain closed. you start thinking, the numbers are going down, we've got a dead...

Up contact. jason, do you want to pick up on the story in the telegraph? i up on the story in the telegraph? i think the problem here is most of the restrictions being lifted completely. if we have greater freedoms, let's move to a greater number of cases. the argument on the government for lifting freedom was primarily an economic one. they were saying they needed to get the economy back motoring again, but this is proving... i can't say the word. so many people are off work. i'm sure martin will know this as well. it's very hard to find someone who hasn't been pinged recently. that's interes...

From the star, test and trace has not been fit for purpose, that is the thing, if we all thought it was doing any good it would be a different matter but it's clear it has been an absolute shambles from the start with the vast majority of people being pinged probably at no risk at all. and some are turning out to be the other side of walls, all sorts of errors and problems with this app from the start. i think it's just not fit for purpose and not doing any good. the think it's just not fit for purpose and not doing any good. the nhs app is only advisory. _ and not doing any good. the nhs app ...

And hundreds are unaccounted for in europe's worst floods for decades. south africa's president addressed the nation after days of rioting and looting. he says efforts to overthrow democracy have failed. the uk has recorded more than 50,000 coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time since mid january. in the past 2a hours there were a further 51,870 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk. and another 49 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for covid — bringing the uk's death toll to 128,642. earlier this afternoon, official figures suggested that1 in 100 people in t...