Some of the daily Downing Street briefings are to be scrapped, reducing the opportunities for ministers to updated the public and for people to ask questions.
Since the start of lockdown daily briefings have been held from Downing Street each day with the latest information on the fight against coronavirus as well as updates on specific areas of new regulation or guidance.
Each briefing has been fronted by a senior minister along with leading scientific and health figures.
Questions are posed by journalists and members of the public.
But Number 10 today said that the conferences will no longer take place on a Saturday or Sunday and instead just run Monday to Friday.
They have also said that Boris Johnson will lead at least one of the briefings a week, alongside scientific and medical experts while the others will likely continue to be held by other senior ministers.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman told a Westminster briefing: "From this week, the press conferences will be on weekdays only – so no longer on Saturdays and Sundays.
"The PM will take a press conference every week alongside… the scientific and medical experts.
"Others will be led by secretaries of state, alongside scientific and medical experts where relevant."
Asked why the change was being made, the spokesman said: "It is just a fact that the numbers who are viewing at weekends do tend to be significantly lower."
