Prime Minister Boris Johnson has axed all remaining Covid legal restrictions in England, including the requirement to isolate.
It will mean mandatory self-isolation will be axed from Thursday, £500 isolation payments and Day One sick pay will go, and free tests will be axed from April 1 - with a 72-hour limit already in place to stop stockpiling.
The Prime Minister said testing, tracing and isolation cost £2billion in January alone adding: "Those who would wait for a total end to this war... would be restricting the liberties of the British people for a long time to come."
