Guidance to work from home and the mandatory use of face masks are likely to be retained as options in the Covid winter plan due to be set out by Boris Johnson.
The Prime Minister will tell the nation on Tuesday how the country can learn to live with the virus, underlining how vaccinations will be a central part of the response to coronavirus in the coming months.
What will be dropped?
Plans for vaccine passports for nightclubs and other large crowd venues have been shelved.
The travel traffic lights system is also expected to be scrapped and PCR tests will no longer be required for fully vaccinated travellers.
It follows No 10 confirming some elements of the Coronavirus Act would be repealed, including those allowing the closing down of the economy, the imposing of restrictions on events and gatherings, the power to temporarily close or restrict access to schools, and powers to detain infectious people.
The issue of vaccine passports has caused growing disquiet among Tory ranks, as well as facing opposition from opposition parties and industry figures.
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The decision not to implement them means measures in England deviate from those in Scotland, where a motion on their introduction was passed in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, while a decision is expected in Wales next week.
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Stormont ministers have yet to reach an official position on using vaccine access passports within Northern Ireland.
What could make a return?
Health Secretary Sajid Javid told the Commons on Tuesday that mandatory face mask wearing and working from home would not be ruled out if case numbers threatened the NHS.
Speaking on Monday, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said some regulations may still be needed as the NHS prepares to battle both Covid and seasonal flu in the winter months.
Asked about maintaining the work-from-home advice, she told BBC Breakfast of the need to keep some rules on the table, adding: “Whether that’s with what you just mentioned or making sure statutory sick pay can be paid from day one rather than day four, as tends to happen in more regular times.
“These are the sensible measures I think that we’re going to keep.”
On the issue of masks, she added: “The Prime Minister will be setting out the Covid winter plan tomorrow. I think my approach, and I see that with a lot of employers’ organisations, is about having a situation-specific approach.”
It comes after Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Sunday that vaccine passports were a “huge intrusion into people’s lives” and there were no current plans to go ahead with them.
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He said: “You have got to be really, really certain that’s what you want to do. We have looked at it and whilst we will keep it in reserve I am pleased to say that we will not be going ahead.”
However, Ms Coffey said the introduction of vaccine passports had not been “ruled out forever”.
She said: “As Sajid Javid set out yesterday, although the formal decision is still to be made, but having reflected and looked at the details of the proposal that it’s not deemed necessary at this moment in time.
“But they haven’t been ruled out forever. It’s reflecting the fact that a lot of young people have come forward and got their vaccinations over the summer.”
Could there be another lockdown?
Boris Johnson is “dead set” on avoiding further lockdown, reports have suggested.
The Daily Telegraph reported that the PM would tell MPs and the country that “we need to learn to live with Covid” and that vaccines would provide the main defence.
What about booster jabs?
The Government has announced plans for booster vaccinations for the over 50s, which are expected to be given to the most vulnerable people first.
The Covid vaccination programme to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds is due to begin as early as next week.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) previously said the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy youngsters at this time.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Prof. Neil Ferguson, whose modelling was instrumental to the 海角视频 going into lockdown in March 2020, said vaccinating teenagers with a first shot was the priority as the 海角视频 looks at dealing with any autumn and winter surges in Covid.
Asked whether a further lockdown could be ruled out, he said “I hope so” but added that “you can’t rule out anything completely”.
What time is the speech?
Details will be outlined in the Commons during the afternoon with a press conference at around 4pm.
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