Here the latest key developments at a glance: Prof Neil Ferguson is “hopeful” this will be UK’s “final lockdown”, and said Boris Johnson will “have some bandwidth” to start reopening schools in March before potentially beginning to ease other restrictions the following month. The reproduction number, or R value, of coronavirus transmission across the UK is between 0.7 and 0.9, according to the latest government figures, falling below 1 for the since July last year. The UK reported a further 758 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK official death toll to 116,287. Downing Street has defended the level of restrictions that will be in place at quarantine hotels, with hotel staff to decide whether travellers are allowed out of their rooms. Scottish government ministers continue to draw attention to the UK’s “insufficient” border controls, before the managed quarantine restrictions coming into force on Monday. GPs and other vaccinators can now give coronavirus vaccinations to people aged between 65 and 69 in England if they have done all they can to reach older and clinically vulnerable people in higher priority groups. Downing Street has said the plan to ease the lockdown in England will be set out on 22 February, after Tory MPs were concerned this would be delayed. The Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has said Wales has achieved the first milestone in its vaccination strategy - to offer vaccination to everyone in the first four priority groups. the nation has so far given jabs to 700,000 people. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that one in 80 people in England had Covid-19 in the week ending on 6 February, or around 695,400 people in total, while 1 on 60 people in London were estimated to have the virus that week. In Wales, it was one in 85 in the same week, in Northern Ireland one in 75 and in Scotland around one in 150, the ONS estimates. That’s all from me, thanks for following along. This blog will close shortly, you can follow more updates on the pandemic on our global blog.