Nursery World - Covid-19 self-isolation cut to five days in England

Effective from today (Monday 17 January), children and adults who catch Coronavirus only need to isolate for five days if they test negative two days in a row on a lateral flow test.

The minimum self-isolation for coronavirus has been cut to five days in England PHOTO Adobe Stock

Under the updated Government guidance, which applies to everyone, people self-isolating with Covid-19 will be able to end their isolation period after five full days if they test negative on day five and 24 hours later on day six, and do not have a temperature.

Under isolation rules, the day symptoms begin or people test positive is day zero. The next day is day one of the isolation period.

However, children and adults who continue to test positive on a lateral flow test on these days must remain in isolation until they have had two consecutive negative tests taken on separate days up until day 10.

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