The UK prime minister is set to confirm the rules around the current one-metre plus social distancing requirements, face coverings, and working from home, based on the findings of the social distancing and certification review. Johnson will reiterate that COVID will become a virus that "we learn to live with as we already do with flu", which means that hospitalisations, serious illness and deaths from COVID will continue, albeit at a much lower level than before the vaccination programme. "To continue to receive the best possible protection against COVID, all adults are encouraged to get two vaccine doses. As of 4 July, over 78 million vaccine doses have now been administered in the UK, and 63.4 per cent of adults have received two doses," Downing Street said. The government is also making preparations to offer third "booster" doses to everyone aged over 50 and the most vulnerable to boost their immunity over the winter months, based on interim advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). "Our red list border control regime, surge testing, community testing and genome sequencing are effective ways of finding and isolating new cases of variants and will continue to be deployed," Downing Street added. It is widely expected that all restrictions are to be lifted and people will be urged to exercise their personal judgment on aspects such as face masks and social distancing in gatherings. Some doctors' groups and scientists have called for compulsory face masks in enclosed settings to continue beyond July 19 while infection rates continue to rise. The UK government was set to lift all lockdown restrictions previously on June 21 but delayed the timeline by four weeks to allow further vaccinations amid rising infections from the Delta variant of COVID-19.