UK self-isolation law set to be scrapped in favor of move towards ‘learning to live with Covid’ – Telegraph

People will no longer be legally bound to self-isolate when they catch Covid-19 under plans being drawn up by Downing Street to learn to live with coronavirus in the long term.

It would also mean there would be no legal requirement to isolate after contact with someone who has Covid or to wear face masks in certain settings.

A senior government source told The Telegraph: “Lots of legal requirements were put in place during the pandemic.

The move comes as hope grows that this winter’s Covid surge triggered by the emergence of the omicron variant is easing, with daily case numbers continuing to fall.

On Sunday, the Government said a further 70,924 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the UK.

The Department of Health reported 88 deaths on Sunday within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 - a 9.2 percent decline on the 97 fatalities recorded on the same day the week before.

Downing Street is looking at three different drives to ease pandemic restrictions, some short-term and some long-term.

The so-called Plan B restrictions are expected to be largely lifted on January 26, the review date that the Prime Minister set when he imposed them last month.