The requirement to scan a QR code when entering a bar, restaurant, gym, hairdresser, museum or other venue will also be scrapped from 19 July, the Sunday Times reports. The government is planning to drop regulations that require businesses to collect customers’ details for contact tracing. It will reduce the number of people forced to self-isolate for 10 days after being informed by the NHS Test and Trace app that they have come into contact with a positive Covid case. Parties and mass events, such as music festivals, will also be allowed, the paper adds.