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Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he would set out self-isolation changes for those who have had both vaccine doses in Parliament later today.
“We will have a more proportionate system of test, trace and isolate, and it is absolutely right that those that have been double jabbed that we can take a different approach than the one we take today,” he told BBC Breakfast.
Just a follow-up here on the number of cases that the UK government seems to be thinking are acceptable under its current plans for unlocking England. Prime minister Boris Johnson said cases may be up to 50,000 per day when the country reaches 19 July. Health secretary Sajid Javid has just floated a number double that for the summer on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Sajid Javid tells #radio 4 that cases could get as high as 100,000 a day this summer
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