The british prime minister, Boris Johnson, communicated it yesterday on social networks. Isolation is over if you test positive for COVID. “COVID is not going to suddenly go away and we have to learn to live with this virus and continue to protect ourselves without restricting our freedoms.”
Covid will not suddenly disappear, and we need to learn to live with this virus and continue to protect ourselves without restricting our freedoms. 1/3
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) February 20, 2022
“We have built strong protections against this virus over the last two years through vaccine launches, testing, new treatments, and the best scientific understanding of what this virus may be.”
“Thanks to our successful vaccination program and the sheer number of people who have come forward to be vaccinated, we are now in a position to set our plan for living with COVID this week.”
end of isolation
And the plan is that the isolation ends. As of Friday, February 25, the self-isolation rules for those who test positive will be eliminated in the country, the same for their close contacts.
Now it will be the local authorities who will have to manage the COVID outbreaks with the existing public health competencies, as is done with other diseases, such as the flu, colds… If you are sick with a fever, you will probably stay home, but if not, you will have to go to your job. It has not been established what will happen to children who test positive for COVID, those under 5 years of age who are neither vaccinated nor go to schools with masks.
According to the National Statistics Office, one in 20 people in England was infected with the coronavirus last week. The regional authorities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland they must decide whether to follow the example of England and remove the restrictions.