Health Minister said that currently “two-thirds of positive cases (of coronavirus) are no longer contagious by the end of the fifth day.”
The British Government will reduce the isolation period to five full days for those people infected with covid-19 who have the complete vaccination schedule and test negative in two tests, starting next Monday, announced this Thursday the Minister of Health, Sajid Javid.
In a statement before the House of Commons (down), Javid remarked that currently “two-thirds of positive cases (of coronavirus) are no longer contagious by the end of the fifth day.”
Until now, fully vaccinated people who contract the virus can complete their seven-day isolation if they are negative on the sixth and seventh days and must continue to isolate ten if they test positive for antigens.
“After reviewing all the evidence, we have made the decision to reduce the minimum period of isolation to five full days in England,” said the minister, who specified that from next Monday “(infected) people will be able to take two tests before leaving. , leaving isolation at the beginning of the sixth day. “
Javid added that “these two tests are critical to (being able to carry out) these balanced and proportionate plans,” while urging citizens to “benefit from the capacity” that this country has managed to develop in its test system “to to be able to restore the freedoms of this country while keeping the population safe. “
The Tory politician recalled that the latest official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (ONS) show “encouraging signs that infections are declining in London and eastern England, but there are still increases in other parts of the country.”
Javid also called for caution at the beginning of the third year of the pandemic: “This virus is not going to go away, there will be more variants and no one can be sure what the threat they will represent.”
“But we can be sure that our pharmaceutical defenses, vaccines, covid-19 detection tests and antivirals are the best way to protect our health and our freedoms while we learn to live with covid,” he remarked. (I)
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