Portrait of the week: Mixed messages on masks, protests in Cuba and good news for pandas

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England expects everyone to wear masks in crowded places, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said in a televised address, even though the law requiring it was to be dropped on 19 July. He said: ‘We’re removing the government instruction to work from home where you can but we don’t expect that the whole country will return to their desk as one from Monday.’ He added that the ‘single most crucial thing’ people could do was to get vaccinated. He declared it ‘a matter of social responsibility’ for nightclubs and other venues to demand a Covid pass, proving vaccination or a recent negative test, to allow entry. The Night Time Industries Association resented being used as a cat’s paw. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, asked Transport for London to make the wearing of face coverings a condition of carriage. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons Speaker, told MPs that when the House returned from the summer recess that begins on 22 July, it would be physically.