Proposals include plan to stop Covid contacts having to self-isolate and moves to allow household mixing at Christmas

A programme of mass, instant coronavirus testing is to be rolled out to areas of England with the highest infection rates after lockdown is lifted next month, the prime minister has announced, as the government faces an unprecedented internal rebellion over Covid measures.

Among the plans, which will rely on the ability to massively expand rapid testing systems across the country, is a move to stop people who have come into close contact with someone who has coronavirus from having to isolate for 14 days, if tests show they have not contracted it.

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