Charities supporting the UK’s most vulnerable patients have pleaded with the public to keep wearing masks even after most Covid restrictions end in England this week.
Transplant patients and those with illnesses such as blood cancer and late-stage kidney disease “feel abandoned” by the government, charities said, after Boris Johnson announced that plan B measures will end on Wednesday.
People will no longer be required to wear masks on public transport and in shops, or use vaccine certificates, and the government has stopped asking people to work from home. By 24 March, the legal requirement for people with Covid to self-isolate will end, and the prime minister told MPs the date may be brought forward.
Although official guidance is to “suggest” that individuals wear masks in crowded and enclosed spaces with people they do not normally meet, Kidney Care UK and Blood Cancer UK said that ministers were not telling the public this.
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