Under new rules, which will be implemented by the Government this Tuesday, double vaccinated close contacts of Covid cases will not have to self-isolate if they receive a negative test – an option which isn’t open to the unvaccinated. In addition, those who are double jabbed but initially test negative will be recommended to take daily lateral flow tests for the next seven consecutive days. BBC News has the story.
Those who test positive, develop symptoms, or are unvaccinated should self-isolate for 10 days.
But people will not need to isolate if the tests remain negative and they have had at least two vaccine doses.
It means people in close contact with suspected or confirmed Omicron variant cases no longer always need to isolate.
NHS lateral flow tests – which are available in boxes of seven – are free from pharmacies or via online order.
The Government said the change in guidance “aims to reduce pressures on people’s everyday lives by replacing the requirement for Omicron contacts to isolate for 10 days”.
Anyone who has a positive result from a rapid test should take a confirmatory PCR test to verify the result, as well as continue to self-isolate.
They do not need to continue taking rapid tests during the isolation period.
If the PCR result comes back negative, contacts can leave self-isolation but should continue to take rapid lateral flow tests for the remainder of the seven days.
This change follows a significant rise in Omicron cases across the U.K. with the new variant expected to become the dominant strain by mid-December.
The latest Omicron case numbers on Sunday show 1,239 new daily cases, bringing the total number of Omicron cases in the UK to 3,137 – although the real number is estimated to be much higher.
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: “We are taking this proportionate and more practical measure to limit the impact on people’s day-to-day lives while helping to reduce the spread of Omicron.”
The Government says this new advice will be in guidance rather than law initially, but this will be kept under review.
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Just bugger off.
As stated above this is just guidance. SO!!! I know lets ignore it like I do everything else. Sorted.
How on earth are they gong to ‘police’ this one? If you don’t use test and Trace then you might never know if you’ve been in contact with a Covid -ridden person.
As it is normally, in effect, with all other types of infection.
“The Government says this new advice will be in guidance rather than law initially, but this will be kept under review.”
Arr, ‘tis guidelines, m’hearties, just like the pirate’s code. Actually, just like quite a lot of the rules we’re made to believe are law, but actually aren’t.
Medical information is confidential.
https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/nhs-services-and-treatments/can-i-access-someone-elses-medical-records-health-records/
But selective expression of the truth, not the whole truth, is the game they’ve been playing for a couple of years in this scam. Normal political tactics as well, and salesmanship etc.
Just more coercion …. so that the un-jabbed have to ‘fess up to their employer and (potentially) miss more days of work if they have a job where they can’t work from home.
I wish these rules were science-based instead of politically-driven. As it stands, these are just insane.
How on earth does one become a ‘close contact’?! I work in a school and I am surrounded by hundreds of people every day, many of whom suddenly disappear with a “case of covid” At no point have I ever been identified by Big Brother as a ‘close contact!’ Don’t you have to be a complete moron, and surrounded by complete morons to become one?
Lol. So the tidal wave of the covids can only be avoided if you’re double-jabbed AND you get your booster. In that case, I expect I’ll be dead this time next week. It’s been lovely knowing you all, although I might be ok as I live on a hill.
Interesting reporting already, Torygraph leads with “all adults told to get jab by new year”. What I heard the Fat Controller say was that people will “be offered” a booster; “will have the chance to get their booster” blah blah blah.
And I’m looking forward to seeing whether we are one of the 42 towns where these army camps will be set up. You can bet they are a cover for something else.
“Offered” is another of those words (like “pandemic” and “vaccine”) which have been redefined to suit the current political direction.
Offered (new meaning) = coerced and hassled until you give in (unless you are particularly determined, like many of us on here).
This was rehearsed, written for him, and took however many takes it took … the language was chosen carefully. He didn’t use words like ‘must’ otherwise, when those post-jab nasties pop up, he can’t be accused of having personally instructed anyone to do anything.
He can wind his neck in.
So the double jabs people had are now obsolete and you need the booster to get your passport. Strange way to coerce you into that. Why didn’t they just start with the booster. Plus is the omincron strain which is going to become dominant by mid December only happening in the UK, it seems to have bypassed everywhere else.
I’m sure all those unvaccinated people that taking PCR test, and participating in test and trace must be rushing to get jabbed.
Another rule I won’t be observing.
With the maniacal drive for the ‘boosters’ and the increasing marginalisation of the ‘unvaccinated’ does anybody really doubt that this thrust is solely to fill the coffers of big Pharma and in turn their Institutional investors like such as Blackrock and State Street. It’s never been about a virus, it’s a global financial coup. Time to wake up and smell the coffee if you haven’t done so already.
No its not a global financial coup.. have you learned nothing from this site.. ???
No doubt big pharma likes the extra cash, but this is so much bigger than that. This is a direct attack on our way of life, and if people don’t wake up they’ll have nothing better than death and slavery to look forward to.
Vaccine passport = Digital ID = linked to a Central Bank Digital account = linked to a Social Credit System.. that’s what this fake pandemic is all about..
Freedom = gone forever..
Well put George L. Your summation is spot on. Personally I get fed up of much of the medical mumbo-jumbo because by and large that argument was won many months ago.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with our health, well except in as much as we are being slowly tortured, maimed and murdered.
The end game is total control of a worldwide slave population. Control that really could go as far as regulating when you open your bladder or bowels.
Be afraid. Be VERY AFRAAAAAID!
There’s a bug going round from which no one has died from (as of last week) but is definitely going to kill 75,000 people over the next few months and Britain faces a “national emergency”. It must be true, Peking Piffle just said so. One wonders if he’d been promised something more dangerous.
So how do I find out if I’m a “close contact” then?
And how do “they” find out if I’m “unvaccinated” for that matter? Covid 1984.
And he’s going to basically turn the NHS back into the National Covid Service again for the next month in order to engage in an orgy of sticking pricks into people. Sorry, I mean “our” NHS. Tough shit for anyone who needs treatment for anything.
And apparenly it’s all to “to protect our NHS, our freedoms and our way of life”. For fuck’s sake, they are taking the piss more and more every day. Our ‘way of life’ has been comprehensively fucked by the march of the Covidian jackboots over the past nearly two years.
I’m sick and tired of it. I’m sick and tired of the word “covid”, I’m sick and tired of the word “masks”, and I get a visceral reaction to seeing people with their faces covered with bits of cloth strapped to their ears. I’m sick and tired of the 24/7 fear porn, I can’t enjoy anything because even though I try and avoid seeing and hearing about it, it’s impossible. It’s all people talk about, I’m sick to fucking death of it all. Previously sensible, skeptical and cynical friends have succumbed to the fear porn, I’m so disappointed in them. They’ve banged on for years about “big pharma”, “the NWO”, “I don’t trust the media or politicians”, and “creeping fascism”,but when it actually comes along, and unfolds right before their eyes, it goes right over their heads.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
It’s unenforceable anyway.
Also, just say that you can’t be tested.
They know this, but it’s all designed to create a narrative of the evil “anti-vaxxers” who are putting eveyrone else at risk. The fact that the narrative is bollocks is unfortunately not likely to stop them succeeding in stirring up more hatred against us.
Yes, I can just envisage the speech next week – ‘It’s with heavy heart that because not enough of the unvaccinated are coming forward to be vaccinated, the wave of omicron is bigger than we feared and I have to cancel Christmas.’ (Subtext: and it’s all the unvaccinated people’s fault!)
AKA the German blueprint. Our new dictator here asserted today he was also “the chancellor of the unvaccinated” … after viciously blaming them for everything just a few days ago, even before he assumed office.
IOW, daddy loves you, but/therefore he will spank your ass until you can’t walk any more.
It’s already started, see this vile article
https://mol.im/a/10294225
The really pernicious thing about this is that the ‘unjabbed’ are eligible for the new testing rules if if they have a proven medical reason for not being jabbed. All the other ‘unjabbed’, for whatever reason they have chosen not to are not eligible. Thin end of the wedge in the war against the ‘unjabbed’! Medical apartheid here we come!
Why was tonight’s address to the country by Boris Johnson pre-recorded?
Is he out on the tiles?
No, he was watching Strictly. It’s the final next week and he wants to see who makes it.
Luckily I am exempt from masks, vaccines and testing.
Wanna try discriminating?
That’s weird, so am I.
‘The Government says this new advice will be in guidance rather than law initially, but this will be kept under review’. So it’s not law and can be ignored.
I’ve just returned from a family do and a member of the family works in Child Care and she said in her area they are now seeing 2 or 3 suicides a week where it was once 3 or 4 a year. The ones who are committing suicide are the high achieves as they have lost hope. This so called government is evil.
Because I am a bear of little brain, please could someone cleverer than me confirm the following:
If I get into a car and buckle up but my passenger does not, they are somehow putting me at risk.
Thank you.
Not the best analogy as it depends where they are sitting – if the are behind you then yes, they potentially are putting you at risk if there is an accident.
Could be if they’re sitting behind & headbutt you, but I still wouldn’t make them compulsory, you’d be an idiot for not wearing a crash hat on a motorbike, but i’d still make it a personal choice.
The reality is there’s no end to health safety abuse & dictatorship, if you give government responsibility to make decisions for you. People must learn to take responsibility for themselves, not allow government to infantilize the nation. If you drink & drive, you deserve to hang! But I’m a firm believer in Darwin awards, its natural process to allow idiots to kill themselves & your responsibility of your own safety.
The only positive (if there is one) in all this covid nonsense is it has woken more people up to the dangers of pseudo (corporate) communism & oppressive technocratic authoritarianism. Just maybe its not to late.
Just spotted this for the Independent on line:
“UK test and trace system may remain in place until 2025The government appear to be making preparations to keep Britain’s test and trace system running up until 2025, the Financial Times has revealed.
According to the newspaper, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has signed at least four contracts with Deloitte and Accenture – with the potential to be extended to April 2025.
Accenture have been set the task of controlling the digital systems, including monitoring international travel from green, amber and red list countries.
Meanwhile, Deloitte will work on the delivery of domestic contact tracing, as well as providing additional IT support.
The combined value of the contracts stands at £111 million for the initial 18-month run.
Words fail me……
I do not have any tracking and tracing app following my movements. My phone also blocks all unknown callers. Also I do not associate with people who provide my details and movements to others.
Ignore.
Dont test.
Don’t mask.
Don’t isolate.
There are more of us than them.
Sadly there are a lot more of them than us.
Btw, thank you BBC for the comprehensive coverage of the paedo Ghislaine Maxwell case, daughter of triple-agent Robert Maxwell though Mossad loyal to the end splash. Good job she hasn’t talked, though picking the judge and slotting in former FBI boss Comey’s daughter as Prosecutor is there for precaution – for the higher ups.
Something will happen to get out when she gets off with “minor” offences. Even with all the connections et al…
Funny to see Diana there – at that point she didn’t know what was going to happen to her. Neither did Cap’n Bob! I wonder if he ‘bobbed’ about a bit before the sharks got him.
She must have thought “If it isn’t Saville, his Godfather Mountbatten, its Mossad Maxwell. Molesters everywhere.”
Robert Maxwell a triple? I don’t believe for one moment that the Brits thought he was their double, which is to say that they had his loyalty and he was conning the Israelis into thinking they had it.
As for Ghislaine, she’s playing on the royal connection right now. Could more of them in that family have had an Epstein connection than just Andrew the former “trade envoy”?
He played them all in some at some point, but was loyal to Israel the most. They got rid of him when he asked for money after he raided pension pots. Gave him a good send off at the Mount of Olives though.
All far too complicated for me. What’s for dinner?
Easily sidestepped. Just don’t allow anyone to list you as a contact. Don’t download any app. Don’t give your real details.
Do not comply.
Johnson, being coerced and rattled again by Sage and Gove to do something, they are evil. More children were abused by family during lockdown than caught covid
Who gives a stuff what your view is, Baroness Baddy.
Sorry, meant to post this under Emerald Fox’s comment!
If you’re not sick, ignore them.
Oh good, 8PM full lockdown for Christmas is it?
Look at this below, all of their measures have caused the “crisis”!
“Tenfold increase in patients waiting over eight hours to be transferred from ambulance to A&E
The number of patients waiting more than eight hours to be handed over from an ambulance to A&E has increased almost tenfold this year compared to pre-pandemic.
Some 218 patients waited eight hours or more outside English hospitals in 2021, compared to just 23 patients in 2019, information obtained by The Telegraph, through Freedom of Information requests, reveals.
Experts said “patients are dying every day” due to the delays, which they said are caused by infection control procedures limiting bed capacity, the social care crisis leaving patients stuck in hospitals and widespread staffing problems.”
Are the Nightingale hospitals still full?
Flat-packed I believe!
Full as ever!
As I keep repeating, everything this government has done since the start has as its intention the ruination of people’s health to the extent even of deliberate kill and maim policies.