Quarantine-free air bridges between Britain and some countries with low COVID19 infection rates could be in place by the end of the month
Asked during Monday's daily press briefing why some contact tracers had no work, Mr Hancock said 25,000 had been hired and it was a good thing there were so many.
"The level of incidence of disease has come down and so actually we have more capacity than we need, this is a good thing." This week from today to Thursday, Dermot Murnaghan will be hosting After the Pandemic: Our New World - a series of special live programmes about what our world will be like once the pandemic is over.
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