All the key announcements from Boris Johnson's statement on 'living with Covid'

All remaining legal coronavirus restrictions in England are to be scrapped this week, Boris Johnson has announced.

In an address in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister said the country must learn to "live with Covid" and "move from government restrictions to personal responsibility."

"Because of the efforts we have made as a country over the past two years, we can now deal with it in a very different way, moving from Government restrictions to personal responsibility, so we protect ourselves without losing our abilities and maintaining our contingent capabilities so we can respond rapidly to any new variant.”

Here is everything that will change as a result

From this Thursday (February 24) there will no longer be a legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test.

Self-isolation support payments will also end, although Covid provisions for statutory sick pay can still be claimed for a further month.

Despite the end of the legal requirement, until April 1 both adults and children continue will be advised to stay at home if they test positive - in public health advice.

After that "we will encourage people with Covid-19 symptoms to exercise personal responsibility, just as we encourage people who may have flu to be considerate to others" Mr Johnson said

Mr Johnson said the test, trace and isolate system, which last year had a bigger budget than entire budget of the Home Office must had come at a "vast cost" and must be scaled back.

From today (February 21) the guidance for staff and students in schools and most other education and childcare settings to undertake twice weekly asymptomatic testing will be removed.

Then from April 1 when winter is over, universal symptomatic and asymptomatic testing will end