Boris Johnson will on Monday unveil the Government's plans for how Britain will live with Covid in the future.

       He is set to announce that all Covid regulations, including those that mandate lockdown and that require people to self-isolate if they test positive, will be scrapped from Thursday.

       Here we explore everything that is set to change in the days ahead.

       Legal duty to self-isolate ends

       People who test positive for Covid and their close contacts will no longer be required by law to self-isolate from Thursday, as the Government sweeps away pandemic regulations.

       They will still be advised by the Government to self-isolate and only return to work after testing negative, but it will not be a legal duty as ministers shift the onus onto personal judgement and responsibility.

       Foreshadowing the move on Sunday, Boris Johnson said: "We have reached a stage where we think you can shift the balance away from state mandation, away from banning certain courses of action, and compelling certain courses of action, in favour of encouraging personal responsibility."

       He said the public should remain cautious, and get vaccinated if they had not yet done so.

       "I think it’s very important we should remain careful," he said. "We’re certainly not asking people to throw caution to the winds. Covid remains a dangerous disease, particularly if you haven’t been vaccinated."

       Blanket lockdown regulations will also be replaced by a requirement on local authorities to manage outbreaks through planning and pre-existing public health powers, as they would with other diseases.

       Mr Johnson said: "I don’t want to go back to that kind of non-pharmaceutical intervention and want to be able to address the problems of the pandemic with a vaccine-led approach."

       But he refused to rule out reintroducing restrictions in the face of a new variant in the future. "You’ve got to be humble in the face of nature," he said.

       Travel tests and bureaucracy remain

       Travel tests and red tape will remain despite the relaxation of domestic restrictions.

       Unvaccinated travellers will still be required to take a pre-departure test and pay for a PCR test on or before day two of their arrival in the UK.

       All travellers – jabbed and unjabbed – will also have to continue to fill in the passenger locator form (PLF) to enter the UK to the anger of many in the travel industry and Tory MPs who have campaigned for "frictionless" travel.

       Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is expected to announce long-term plans for travel in the next month, which could see the PLF further streamlined, the scrapping of hotel quarantine for red list countries and measures to prevent a return to on-off border closures.

       Mr Shapps has been working with other countries to draw up a "playbook" of rules to deal with new virus strains so that action can be taken without shutting frontiers.

       He said that this "will help us to ensure that, rather than having to shut down, we can put measures in place that are internationally agreed if required".

       Face masks will be optional

       Face masks are no longer compulsory except on the London Underground and other means of public transport in the capital. There is no legal obligation to wear them in shops.

       Instead, it will be left up to companies and individuals to decide the approach they adopt, which means that companies, theatres and shops could still request that they should be worn by their employees and customers.

       A government source said it was "likely we won't be explicit" on the approach businesses should take to masks. They added: "We are now in a world where we're moving away from Government diktat to personal judgement and responsibility."

       It is thought likely that ministers will still suggest that people continue to wear face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces, where they may come into contact with people they do not normally meet in order to minimise the risk of infection.

       Dr Raghib Ali, a senior clinical research associate with the Medical Research Council (MRC) at the University of Cambridge, urged vulnerable people to wear good quality surgical masks.

       "[Infected people] should not go to work, go on public transport or meet people at high risk," he said. "As long as people continue to follow the guidance, there’s no reason not to lift the legal requirement."

       Hospital visits could still be restricted

       Hospitals are still likely to limit visits as the Government’s new living with Covid plans will leave it up to individual trusts to decide their own policies.

       More than a quarter of NHS trusts have suspended routine hospital visits completely, and in some cases relatives are being prevented from seeing non-Covid patients for weeks at a time.

       NHS England encourages trusts to facilitate visits "wherever possible, and to do so in a risk-managed way", but it is up to individual trusts to set their own policies based on UK Health Security Agency guidelines.

       Analysis by The Telegraph found that at least 34 hospital trusts across England still have routine visits suspended, with exceptions such as those for patients receiving end-of-life care and people with dementia.

       All 125 trusts have some form of visiting restriction in place. The most common policy is to have one named visitor per patient for the entirety of a patient’s stay, who can only visit for one hour once a day

       Booster jabs for elderly and vulnerable

       The over-75s and those who are clinically vulnerable are expected to be given a fourth coronavirus jab within weeks.

       The elderly and those who have immuno-suppressant conditions will be offered another booster jab as it is six months since many had their third jab last autumn.

       Mr Johnson is expected to leave open the prospect that further Covid jabs could be given, saying he will be guided by the expert vaccine body, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

       Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, chair of the JCVI, has said that fourth Covid jabs should not be offered until there is more evidence, as giving boosters to people every six months was "not sustainable".

       In an interview with The Telegraph last month, he said the UK needed to "target the vulnerable" in future, rather than giving boosters to all over-12s.

       Mr Johnson repeated his plea for anyone who was not fully vaccinated to get their jab, saying Covid remained "dangerous if you are vulnerable or not vaccinated".

       "There are still people who have not been properly vaccinated or had their booster. There is no place for complacency about this," he said.

       Schools mass testing to end

       Mass testing in schools is also expected to end at the beginning of April in tandem with the shift from the provision of universal free tests for Covid, saving the Treasury a significant slice from the current ￡2billion a month cost of the testing programme.

       It is understood ministers are considering contingency supplies of free tests for schools if they have Covid outbreaks. The requirement for face coverings to be worn in classrooms and communal areas was lifted last month as part of the updates to Plan B.

       But Mr Johnson faces a union backlash from Unison, Unite and the GMB, which represent school support staff, and they are urging him to keep in place free testing and the requirement to self-isolate.

       The three unions warned that the failure to provide clear, detailed guidance risked a “super spreader free-for-all” in schools and other workplaces. If remaining safety rules are axed, schools will be left in an “impossible situation”, the unions added.

       Parents will be unsure about whether to send their children into school, transmission rates could soar and new, more potent variants could emerge, they warned.