Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said he will continue to wear a face mask going shopping when Plan B Covid restrictions lift in England.
Mr Javid said people would have to make their own “personal judgment” about what precautions to take as legal requirements come to an end.
“Will I be wearing a face mask? Yeah, I think I probably would be in a week’s time,” he told BBC Breakfast.
“Because prevalence is still high and there will be people there, especially if I am going to my local shop which is small and enclosed and can have quite a few people in there at one time in quite a small space, I don’t know most of those people, I think that would be sensible.
“I think it will be sensible on the tube in London, for example – quite an enclosed space.
“People will be asked to make their own personal judgment just as we do in fighting flu.”
Rules on masks in public in England change in a week's time.
