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5.44pm BST
Back at the press conference, Boris Johnson says some important sectors are included in the list of critical workers who will be allowed to use testing as an alternative for isolation.
But he says isolation is a valuable tool. That is why he wants to carry on using it.
5.42pm BST
The US is warning its citizens not to travel to Britain, the BBC's Jon Sopel reports.
On #FreedomDay in England the US @CDCgov raises UK to highest risk level and warns Americans not to travel to Britain because of prevalence of #deltavariant pic.twitter.com/VpZCUvAhqX
There'd been speculation that travel ban for Britons travelling to the US would be lifted at G7. It wasn't.
That was replaced by speculation it will be lifted by end of summer. It won't, given latest CDC advice