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Care home residents can receive unlimited visitors from Monday as restrictions to tackle the Omicron variant of coronavirus are eased, the Department of Health has said.
Self-isolation periods will also be reduced from 14 days to 10 for those who test positive, with further reductions if they test negative on days five and six.
I’m conscious that Sue Gray is finalising her report … it’s important that be allowed to continue, as indeed the prime minister said about the police investigation. I know that the government is committed to publishing the full findings of the report, but the timing I actually have no idea about.
