Britain's government has amended self-isolation rules for workers in key sectors who have come into contact with a person who has COVID-19 after staff shortages disrupted the national food supply. The measure applies to 16 sectors including energy, civil nuclear, food production and supply, waste, water, veterinary medicines, essential chemicals, essential transport, medicines, medical devices, clinical consumable supplies, emergency services, border control, essential defence outputs and local

The self-isolation period for people who have tested positive for coronavirus has been cut to a week in most cases. The change has been outlined in new guidance from the UK Health Security Agency( UKHSA). Here is an explanation of what it means. What has changed?... From Wednesday, people in England who receive negative lateral flow results on day six and day seven of their self-isolation period will no longer have to self-isolate for the full 10 days. Recommended Covid omicron news: Booster va

BANGKOK( REUTERS)-Thailand has given the go-ahead for home isolation of coronavirus patients with mild symptoms and use of home self-test kits, as a stubborn coronavirus outbreak puts pressure on its capital's healthcare and testing capacity. Thailand has so far been predominantly using RT-PCR( reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests but long queues at testing facilities in Bangkok, the epicentre, have caused a rethink of measures to track infections. The rapid antigen test kits,

Children and parents face a month of summer camp chaos despite an official study showing that forcing schoolchildren to self-isolate was unnecessary. Ministers have been urged to scrap the policy forcing healthy children to isolate immediately, in time to" rescue" summer camps. The studyby the University of Oxfordsuggested that forcing hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to self-isolate because a classmate had Covid was needless because daily testing would have been as effective. The results

Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the study showed that" unnecessary disruption" could be avoided with daily tests.... " That aside, what this study shows is that daily testing rather than isolation of contacts is effective in preventing onward transmission." Crucially, it also highlights the unnecessary disruption that isolation rules have had on countless numbers of children.... Around one tenth of people who downloaded the NHS Covid app hav

BRITS will be free of draconian isolation rules from today as the pingdemic finally comes to an end. Double-jabbed adults and children under 18 will now be able to carry on as normal even if they have been in close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid.... 2 From today, double-jabbed Brits can forget about the draconian self-isolation rules as the dreaded pingdemic comes to an end Credit: PA They are advised to get a PCR test, but this will not be a legal requirement. Double-jabbed

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Self-isolating Britons will be entitled to claim additional monetary support if they are told to stay at home and do not qualify for sick pay.... This payment is designed to temporarily help with living costs and will be available until March next year.... But how can you claim this payment and who exactly is eligible?...

Asked about the business owners’ concerns, the minister added: “ You can’t have it both ways.... On the one hand we’re saying we want to reopen but we’re giving a measure of precaution in terms of delaying the lifting of self-isolation restrictions.” Mr Kwarteng suggested the government will not backtrack on plans to maintain the isolation requirement until mid-August.... They will be advised to take a coronavirus test, but that will not be compulsory. Experts have toldThe Independentthat as m

Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to cut the length of time required for self-isolation in Scotland. The First Minister will address Parliament on Wednesday to give an update on the situation with Covid-19 as the Omicron variant continues to sweep across the country.Ms Sturgeon said last week that she hoped to be able to give an update on any changes to the self-isolation period – which is currently 10 days.We understand the need for caution, but Nicola Sturgeon’s dithering and delaying is continui