T he Covid self-isolation period could be cut from 10 to seven days to ease staff shortages in the NHS and allow Christmas gatherings to go ahead, according to reports. The proposed changes would allow Covid patients to leave quarantine if they receive negative lateral flow tests on day six and seven. Patients should instead be allowed to leave quarantine after providing two negative lateral flow tests, they said. “We suggest careful investigation is undertaken on whether those positive with Covid could take daily lateral-flow tests during their ten-day isolation period and leave isolation when they have had two negative tests. “I think if it could be coupled with lateral flow testing, so testing negative to release,” he told the Sunday Telegraph.

Source: The Times December 21, 2021 15:16 UTC