Facemasks are likely to remain a legal requirement on public transport and in some settings, but ministers are preparing to remove most Covid restrictions next week.
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The end of the pandemic is in sight for the UK according to the World Health Organisation's coronavirus chief.
Professor David Nabarro said that the country can see the “light at the end of the tunnel”.
Facemasks are likely to remain a legal requirement on public transport and in some settings, but ministers are preparing to remove most Covid restrictions next week.
The restrictions expected to be removed include the vaccine passport and work from home guidance, as ministers bid for a return to normality.
Figures for hospital admissions and infections are "looking positive" for lifting restrictions on January 26 according to Nadhim Zahawi.
Nabarro, the WHO’s special envoy for Covid-19, told Sky News: “Looking at it from a UK point of view, there does appear to be light at the end of the tunnel".
He did however warn that it will be "bumpy before the end" with the risk of new variants emerging.
He added: “Do what you can to stop transmitting it. Do what you can to protect others from being affected by it, It’s not the common cold".
Work from home guidance is set to be scrapped due to the impact the measure has had on the economy, while vaccine passports have prompted a revolt among Conservative MPs in the Commons last month.
Despite the spread of the Omicron variant slowing in London and the southeast, there remains concern that hospitals in the north east and north west regions are under strain.
Face covering measures are set to remain in place as a result.
Labour leader has backed calls for an end to restrictions, but says it must not serve as a distraction from partygate for the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
He told the BBC: "The sooner we can lift the final restrictions, the better. That’s what the whole country wants. So, if it’s the right thing to lift those restrictions, we will vote to lift those restrictions.
Starmer added: We’ll be led by the science. . . not by the politics of propping up a broken prime minister".
