Details on the easing of lockdown could be announced this week as the rate of infection remains high.
Boris Johnson told the latest Downing Street briefing on Tuesday that the government are looking at how and when they can get things open again.
The Prime Minister said: ""It's fair to say the rate of infection is still pretty forbiddingly high but at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open.
"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is sending out in more detail as soon as we can when and how we want to get things open again."
His remarks came as the UK death toll from coronavirus passed a tragic milestone.
It was confirmed on Tuesday that more than 100.000 people have now died of coronavirus in the UK since the start of the pandemic last year.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered condolences to those who had been affected by the Covid-19 virus.
He said that once the Covid-19 crisis is over, the nation will remember everyone who lost their lives.
The official death toll is now 100,162, after 1,631 deaths were recorded today.
Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister said: "I am sorry to have to tell you that today the number of deaths recorded from Covid in the UK has surpassed 100,000.
"And it's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic.
"The years of life lost, the family gatherings not attended and, for so many relatives, the missed chance even to day goodbye.
"I offer my deepest condolences to everyone who's lost a loved one.
"Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters and the many grandparents who've been taken.
"And to all those who grieve we make this pledge - that when we've come through this crisis, we will come together as a nation to remember everyone we lost, and to honour the selfless heroism of all those on the front line who ave their lives to save others."
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He also referred indirectly to the Government's promise to hold an inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic.
He said: ""We will make sure we learn the lessons, and reflect and prepare."
Mr Johnson said more than 6.8 million people have now received a vaccination. This is more than one in ten people.
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty warned: "Unfortunately we are going to see quite a lot more deaths over the next few weeks before the affects of the vaccines begin to be felt."
