Acting CMO urges people not to take return to school "as signal to return to workplace" 

Dr Ronan Glynn's says there are "many reasons for hope"

with the lowest daily number of new Covid-19 infections since before Christmas yesterday. 

The latest data shows 303 people have tested positive, and two more patients with the virus are confirmed to have died. 

Infectious diseases specialist Professor Sam McConkey of the Royal College of Surgeons says keeping up social distancing is now incredibly important as restrictions are eased today: 

"So even though you can travel further it's really just for exercise and hopefully that will still be, you know, only people from one other family outdoors, so you know you can travel to meet one other family outdoors for a walk, but that I hope won't lead to people going mad and doing a lot of things that bring them very intimately close with others yet."