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12.45am BST

Boris Johnson will stress the need for people to be cautious on Monday as England takes its first significant step towards easing lockdown restrictions for adults.

People will now be able to meet up legally outdoors in groups of six, or in two households, including in private gardens, and organised outdoor sport can resume.

Related: Johnson urges caution as England takes first big step out of lockdown

12.12am BST

A government-funded study of care home residents in England has found that their risk of infection with Covid-19 - either symptomatic or asymptomatic - fell by 62% five weeks after they received their first Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine dose.

Those who were infected after having the vaccine may also be less likely to transmit Covid-19, initial findings showed. The study, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, is key, given that most clinical trials and observational studies evaluated the impact of the vaccines on symptomatic infections, but whether the vaccines can reduce asymptomatic infections - which play a crucial role in the spread of the virus - is still unclear:

Related: First Covid jab cuts infection risk by 62% in England care home residents