The Health Secretary said that the country was 'leading the world in how to live with Covid'.
The self-isolation period for people who test positive for Covid-19 is being cut to five full days in England, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.
He said the self-isolation period was aimed at maximising activity in the economy while "minimising the risk of people leaving isolation". The health secretary told the House of Commons the virus was "still with us and there are still likely to be difficult weeks ahead", but added there were encouraging signs in the data that infections were falling in London and the east of England - although they were rising in other parts of the country.
That is a huge number of people who are isolating for no reason, disrupting education, the economy and people's personal freedoms.The currently policy of release at seven days with two negative tests means about two in five infectious cases are missed, according to the data. "Before Christmas [the health secretary] told us there was no issue with supply but over Christmas NHS staff and other keyworkers were unable to access tests because the government hadn't noticed that the deliveries had shut up shop for Christmas," he said.
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