Here are the coronavirus morning headlines for Monday, January 17, as people in England can end their coronavirus isolation after five full days in a move hailed as restoring "extra freedoms".
It comes as a Cabinet minister struck an optimistic note by saying the signs for lifting restrictions in England later this month are "encouraging".
Ministers are seeing “encouraging” signs that plan B coronavirus restrictions in England could be lifted in 10 days’ time, the co-chair of the Conservative party Oliver Dowden has said.
