Prime minister tells MPs new plan for faculties, social contact, retail and hospitality

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Johnson says these measures are for England. However he says the devolved administrations have related plans.

He says the vaccines appear to be efficient towards the dominant strains of the virus.

3.37pm GMT

Boris Johnson begins by saying his roadmap will information the federal government “cautiously however irreversibly” to lifting the lockdown.

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