Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed that ministers will announce a further easing of the lockdown this week.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I think we are about to see another step in the plan and this week we will announce further details of the measures that we can take to relieve some of the national lockdown measures at the start of July, including on July 4. That review (on the two-metre rule) will come to bear this week and we will be setting out further details this week on the measures in that space."
It comes amid reports Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a new “one metre plus” social distancing rule to reopen the UK.
The number of people who have died in the UK after contracting coronavirus increased by 43 on Sunday, bring the total death toll according to Department of Health figures to 42,632.
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