Coronavirus

COVID-19: Pathway through the summer

19 July will mark a new phase in the Government’s response to the pandemic, moving away from stringent restrictions on everyone’s day-to-day lives, towards advising people on how to protect themselves and others, alongside targeted interventions to reduce risk. To do this, the Government will:

1. Reinforce the country’s vaccine wall of defence through booster jabs and driving take up
2. Enable the public to make informed decisions through guidance, rather than laws
3. Retain proportionate test, trace and isolate plans in line with international comparators
4. Manage risks at the border and support a global response to reduce the risk of variants emerging globally and entering the UK
5. Retain contingency measures to respond to unexpected events, while accepting that further cases, hospitalisations and deaths will occur as the country learns to live with COVID-19

GOV.UK guidance

• COVID-19 Response: Summer 2021
• Moving to step 4 of the roadmap

• GOV.UK – Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• NHS – Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• GOV.UK – Business support