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Self-isolation period to be cut from two weeks to 10 DAYS for at-risk contacts of coronavirus cases across the entire UK as Government shortens stay-at-home orders ahead of Christmas People in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland currently face two-week wait Wales yesterday reduced time limit to 10 days with newer scientific evidence The rest of … Read more
Self-isolation period to be ‘cut from two weeks to 10 DAYS’ for at-risk contacts of coronavirus cases across the entire UK as Government shortens stay-at-home orders ahead of Christmas By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 10:26 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 10:34 GMT, 11 December 2020 People forced to self-isolate after … Read more
The two-week quarantine for contacts of Covid-19 cases could be halved or eliminated entirely under plans which would see the mass use of pregnancy-style testing kits. The kits, which give results in minutes, would be used to identify un-infected contacts and release them from the 14-day quarantine. The testing scheme will be trialled on emergency … Read more
Quarantine for contacts of Covid-19 cases could be halved or eliminated entirely under mass testing plans, it has been suggested. Pregnancy-style testing kits, which give results in minutes, would be used under the plans to identify un-infected contacts and release them from two-week quarantine. The mass testing scheme will be trialled on emergency workers in … Read more
Test and Trace is still missing four in ten close contacts as number of people notified continues to fall since its launch in May 60.5% of close contacts of people who tested positive in England told to isolate in week ending November 11 It is the fifth week in a row that the figure has … Read more
Test and Trace is still missing four in ten close contacts as number of people notified continues to fall since its launch in May 60.5% of close contacts of people who tested positive in England told to isolate in week ending November 11 It is the fifth week in a row that the figure has … Read more
Britons are ignoring calls from test and trace and blocking its number because they are being bombarded, a contact tracer claimed today. When someone tests positive for the coronavirus they are asked to provide a list of their contacts – family, friends and colleagues they were near for at least 15 minutes – for the … Read more
England’s Test & Trace bungling system reached a smaller proportion of at-risk people than at any point since it started, official data revealed today. The contact-tracing programme, which phones, texts and emails people who have been close to someone who later tested positive for Covid-19, failed to get hold of 40 per cent of those … Read more
Test & Trace fails to reach 40% of at-risk contacts in another record-worst performance as bungling system continues to struggle Contact tracers failed to get hold of 40% of people who might have had Covid This was the worst performance since the system was set up in May Coincided with the programme’s busiest ever week … Read more
The ‘rule of six’ and 10pm curfew have likely had ‘zero effect’ in reducing the spread of Covid-19, research has suggested. Researchers at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are the first to assess whether or not the controversial measures — first introduced in September — have had any effect. They interviewed … Read more