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🔴 At 5pm Boris Johnson will be giving a "Freedom Day" press conference from isolation

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Boris Johnson is unlikely to get an easy ride during the press conference today. The key questions:

🔴 When did he learn about Sajid Javid's positive test?

🔴 When did he go to Chequers?

🔴 Why, when he has been fully vaccinated and has actually had Covid, is he isolating?

The Prime Minister says it is essential to keep up the system of test, trace and isolate.

Boris Johnson says there comes a point when restrictions stop preventing and just "delay" inevitable deaths.

"It is right to proceed cautiously in the way we are"
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🔴Boris Johnson confirms critical workers will get isolation exemption.

But come August 16, we will move to a system of testing rather than isolating for those who have been double vaccinated

💉The Prime Minister confirms plans to make double-jabs condition of entry for nightclubs from September.

He says "they need to do the socially responsible thing" by using the Covid pass "as a means of entry"
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🔴Sir Patrick Vallance says "we are quite close" to the size of the winter wave of infections.

But hospitalisations are "a somewhat different picture", he adds, thanks to the vaccines.

📊Deaths are even lower, however they will rise in the next few weeks

📈Cases are "high and increasing - and that is a risk, we need to beware of it", says Sir Patrick Vallance.

That means "we need to go cautiously" in reopening and not go to places with a high risk of infection.

💉He adds that younger people must get vaccinated

🔴Sir Patrick Vallance says around 60% of people admitted to hospital have been double vaccinated.

He says "that's not surprising" because it is inevitable given the number of people who have now been vaccinated

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Boris Johnson praises the country's younger generation for having sacrificed so much, saying they should be allowed to "bounce back".

➡️But Sir Patrick Vallance says nightclubs and crowded indoor venues "are a focus for potential superspreading events"

🔴Boris Johnson says the roadmap is "we hope irreversible but we can't guarantee that".

He warns "some mutant, some new variant" could change things.

"I've always been very clear about that"
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📊Prof Jonathan Van-Tam says there is "huge uncertainty about how high the [summer] peak will be" because it will be driven by human behaviour.

"It is kind of in everyone's hands"

Boris Johnson has rejected a suggestion he was 'above the rules' on Covid isolation.

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🔴 NEW: Boris Johnson has signed off plans to extend exemption for certain employees ‘pinged’ by the NHS Test and Trace app
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📳The PM says "everyone is being inundated with appeals" to end the pinging.

But the list of sectors "that are absolutely crucial" can't be extended too widely because this is "one of the only shots we have left in our locker"

🚨 BREAKING: Nightclubs and other venues with large crowds are set to be legally forced to adopt Covid passports from the end of September telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

The latest from the @Telegraph's Political Editor @benrileysmith

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🗣️The Prime Minister said: "By the end of September, when all over-18s will have had the chance to be double jabbed, we are planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather."

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