Every time one pupil tested positive in a class, the whole class was sent home for two weeks. Now we know Matt Hancock rejected advice to cut the isolation period to five days just to save face. Did he not care?
The Handball World Cup has demanded that all players be triple vaccinated, tested daily for Covid and quarantined for five days if positive – and the players are threatening legal action.
Unwell adults should stay at home and wear a mask if they have to go outside, health chiefs said today amid warnings the NHS is facing more pressure than it did during the peak of the pandemic.
Here we go again. It's the middle of summer and the leading opinion piece in the Guardian calls for the return of masks, mass-testing and quarantine in response to rising infections and hospitalisations.
Business and current affairs magazine the Economist has suggested that instead of treating Covid like the flu, we should start treating the flu like Covid.
The NHS Confederation, which represents NHS bosses, has called for free Covid testing to remain and said 75% of senior staff in England did not want self-isolation rules to end.
Norway scrapped almost all remaining restrictions today, doing away with its self-isolation and face mask requirements and ending social distancing, despite being in the middle of its Omicron surge.
Boris Johnson announced today that all remaining Covid restrictions, including the legal requirement to isolate, will be scrapped this month, saying he expects to end the remaining restrictions a "full month early".
Wales abandoned its tough stance on Covid today as its self-isolation period was cut to five days in the face of plummeting reported infections, while Scotland axed work-from-home guidance.
The Government is drawing up plans to repeal emergency coronavirus laws including the legal requirement to self-isolate. However, before you get too excited, this would be replaced by official guidance.
