The Government will set out details for the next step of the Covid-19 lockdown roadmap next week, Boris Johnson said today.
The Prime Minister reiterated the UK still needed to be "cautious" in unlocking the UK from restrictions - but that he saw nothing in the data that would suggest "deviating" from the plan.
And he said he would give "as much information" as possible by the end of the month - which suggests an announcement next week.
He said: "We will let people know as much as we possibly can by the end of the month, about weddings for instance, all the details we'll try and let people know by the end of the month exactly where we think we will be on June 21 - step 4."
He added: "But at the moment I can't see anything that makes me think we're going to have to deviate from the roadmap - though clearly we must remain cautious in our approach."
In step 4 of the roadmap, to take effect no earlier than June 21, the government says it hopes to remove all remaining restrictions on social contact - and reopen the last remaining 'high risk' venues, such as nightclubs.
The Prime Minister repeated his pledge that "vaccine passports" would not be required to enter pubs when the roadmap completes.
He said: "On June 21 and vaccine certification and covid status certification I should say, people should bear in mind I don't see any prospect of certificates to go into pubs or anything like that."
It came as new figures showed "early signs" of a potential rise in the proportion of people testing positive for coronavirus in England
Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, published on Friday, show that around one in 1,110 people in private households in England had Covid-19 in the week to May 15 - up from one in 1,340 the previous week.
But while the ONS said that there were "early signs of a potential increase", it stressed that rates were low and it was too soon to say if the rise was the start of a trend.
Sarah Crofts, head of analytical outputs for the Covid-19 Infection Survey, added: "This week there is a mixed picture of infection levels across the UK.
"Although we have seen an early indication of a potential increase in England, rates remain low and it is too soon to say if this is the start of a trend."
The ONS also said that there were signs of an increase in the percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, and the South East.
Yorkshire and the Humber had the highest proportion of people of any region in England likely to test positive for coronavirus in the week to May 15: around one in 520.
In the North East, it was one in 840, and in the South East, it was one in 1,210.
The South West had the lowest estimate at around one in 2,730.
The trend was uncertain for all other regions in the same week, the ONS said.
But the ONS said that rates were low in all regions and credible intervals were wide.
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