Mr Johnson said that pubs and restaurants will be allowed to open both indoors and outdoors from Saturday, July 4.

Hotels, cinemas and hairdressers can also reopen providing they are "Covid-secure".

Theatres and concert halls can open but cannot stage live performances.

Pubs and restaurants will reopen from July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced.

Nightclubs, indoor gyms and beauty salons must remain closed "for now", Mr Johnson said.

The Prime Minister added that the fewer social contacts people have, the safer they will be.

He told the Commons: "I'm acutely conscious that people will ask legitimate questions about why certain activities are allowed and others are not.

"And I must ask the House to understand that the virus has no interest in these debates, its only interest, its only ambition is to exploit any opportunities to recapture ground that we might carelessly vacate and to reinfect our communities.

"And so there is only one certainty - the fewer social contacts you have, the safer you will be."

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