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Forward. it was march 2a, that self isolation was going to end. and that isolation was going to end. and that is because infection levels remain pretty high. we havejust got is because infection levels remain pretty high. we have just got from the office of national statistics, that this is the's monitoring programme to see the effect on the population. the latest data for the last week shows that one in a 19 people in england has a covid—19. that's actually up very slightly from one in 20 the previous week. and that is why there is some concern because we don't know what, in terms of spread...

By the testing system so these people weren't being told to self—isolate and even those who are told to self—isolate, one in five do not fully adhere to that but if this happens and ministers seem keen it happens and ministers seem keen it happens early, we think the uk will be the first developed country to take the step and it marks the point at which in england we are treating this like any other respiratory infection. the mayor of london says the metropolitan police commissioner has "days or weeks" to restore public trust in her leadership. sadiq khan told the bbc he wants to see an ur...

Still infectious. we don't know what it means for sick pay and for isolation payments that some people are entitled to, but there are others who say we can overestimate the impact government rules have. for example, the government did not place any rules on mixing at christmas and the number of contacts people having each day was actually very low, similar to the sort of levels we saw in the first lockdown. it is not like the testing system is picking up all the infections. it was only picking up about half the cases out there, so not everyone was being told to formally isolate and it is why s...

Our health correspondent nick triggle is with me. talk to us about what the prime minister said in terms of ending these restrictions depending on the current encouraging data continuing. how likely is that? the trends are positive, hospital cases are coming down and despite the huge wave of infections driven by the omicron variant the overall numbers of deaths of these winter are not above what we would normally see during any winter but it has come as a surprise to many that this move is being brought forward by a month. they had said it would happen on the 24th of march and it is unclear wh...

To give an assurance now that the scottish government is determined to retain a robust testing system capable of providing scotland with a strong resilience against future covid threats and firmly aligned with public health advice and the principles underpinning the national health service. now to the key points in detail, starting with our revised strategic approach. in earlier phases of the pandemic it was important to try to eliminate covid and suppress it to the lowest possible level, because then we did not have vaccines and treatments to protect against the serious illness and death that...