People will no longer be forced to wear facial coverings from July 19 as England ends its third Covid-19 lockdown, communities secretary Robert Jenrick has announced.
Jenrick said on Sunday that “the state won’t be telling you what to do” after so-called Freedom Day in just over two weeks’ time, reflecting the success of the government’s vaccination programme.
“I think we are going to now move into a period where there won’t be legal restrictions,” he told Sky News. “The state won’t be telling you what to do, but you will want to exercise a degree of personal responsibility and judgment — different people will come to different conclusions on things like masks, for example.”
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