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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rebecca Speare-Cole

Downing Street coronavirus press conferences will no longer be held daily, Government announces

The Government will no longer be holding daily coronavirus press conferences.

The briefings will only be held for "significant announcementss" from today, a Government spokesman said.

Meanwhile, the data previously included during the Downing Street conferences will now be published online on a weekly basis, they added.

The announcement came shortly after Boris Johnson announced a landmark easing of lockdown measures in the House of Commons.

In a statement, the Government spokesman said: “From today, the press conferences will no longer be daily".

“We’ll continue to hold press conferences to coincide with significant announcements, including with the Prime Minister.

“We will be publishing all of the data which has previously been included in the press conference slides on gov.uk every week day.”

As part of the biggest step out of lockdown so far, the Prime Minister said on Tuesday that members of two different households can meet "in any setting, inside or out" from July 4.

Mr Johnson told MPs that the two-metre social distancing rule would be relaxed to one metre from that date, allowing pubs, restaurants and cinemas to reopen.

The PM included a warning that the steps — which also include the opening of campsites, hotels, holiday cottages and churches — were "conditional and reversible" and that local flare-ups would occur.

But he concluded: “Today we can say that our long national hibernation is beginning to come to an end."

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