Haircuts, shopping trips and visits to the pub will be back on the agenda for millions of people when a four-week lockdown in England comes to an end next week, AP quoted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as saying on Monday.

Johnson confirmed to lawmakers that on Dec. 2, the government will lift the stay-at-home instruction introduced early this month to curb a new surge in coronavirus cases.

Shops, gyms, personal care businesses and leisure facilities will be allowed to reopen, and collective worship, weddings and outdoor sports can resume. Fans will also be allowed back into sports stadiums for the first time since March.

Johnson said the scientific cavalry is now in sight, and breakthroughs in mass testing and vaccines should eliminate the need for lockdowns by the spring. But first, he said, we must get through winter without the virus spreading out of control and squandering our hard-won gains.