The NHS Covid emergency alert level has been downgraded due to falling numbers of patients in hospital.
England's healthcare provider has now moved from level four to level three.
Level three means the Covid virus is in general circulation, while level four means that transmission is high or rising exponentially.
NHS England Chief executive Simon Stevens said: “We had over 34,000 severely ill coronavirus patients in our hospitals in mid January.
"That number is now 4,000 and although that is still about 400 more Covid patients than we had this same day a year ago, nevertheless that very sharp decrease in the number of patients with Covid in hospital is a consequence of both declining infection rates across the community and the impact that's now being felt from the vaccination programme.
"As a result of those much reduced acute pressures on the health service, today I'm recommending that we reduce the national alert level across the health service - the EPRR alert level - from level four to level three, and that would take effect today."
Across the UK as a whole cases have been falling in recent weeks, with 38,330 positive tests returned in the past week - a three per cent drop on the seven days before.
This in turn has seen hospital admissions fall to 360 yesterday - compared to more than 4,000 a day at the beginning of January.
As of yesterday there were 711 Covid patients on ventilator beds in hospitals across the UK, down from 4,000 in mid-January.
Level four of the the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Framework is "an incident that requires NHS England national command and control to support the NHS Response".
Level three means "an incident that requires the response of a number of health organisations across geographical areas within a NHS England region".
At the end of February the NHS in all four nations was brought down from the highest level, five, where it had been since the beginning of January.
Level five means there is a material risk that the NHS will be overwhelmed.
While medics in the four nations faced similar levels of pressure and immense workloads, there is a disparity with the pay rises they are being offered.
Yesterday the Scottish government announced it was offering staff a four per cent rise, compared to just one per cent for staff in England and Northern Ireland.
Staff in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are in line for a £500 bonus payment, while those in England are not.
