Brits who receive both doses of Covid vaccine & come into contact with positive case set to avoid 10-day quarantine
FULLY jabbed Brits who come into contact with a positive Covid case will be able to avoid quarantine as part of plans to use daily tests to return to normality.
Under the proposals, anyone who has been double vaccinated will no longer need to stay at home for ten days if contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate.
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Rather than stay at home, Brits will be able to take a test every morning - and given 24 hours of freedom if it produces a negative result.
The new rules would free some 30 million people who have received both doses of the jab from having to quarantine, according to .
A Whitehall source told the newspaper: “The vaccines are extremely effective and we want to keep people safe whilst minimising interruption to their lives.
“So of course it is an attractive option if shown to be safe.”
The policy will be signed off by chief medical officer for England Chris Whitty following the results of a study of 40,000 people, which is set to be published later this summer.
Ministers are keen to replace the ten-day quarantine requirement once all adults have been double vaccinated later this year.
A government source said: “It’s obviously very appealing if it’s safe so we need to show that before we bring it in.”
Over 42 million Brits have now received their first dose of the vaccine, with 30 million double jabbed.
The vaccine rollout has now been extended to over-18s, who were yesterday given the green-light to book their jab.
Meanwhile, younger Brits have scrambled to snap up earlier second jab slots - as under-40s discover they can get appointments weeks sooner.
It comes as Boris Johnson yesterday insisted he was “very confident” that all Covid restrictions would be lifted on July 19 despite a rise in cases.
Furious Tory MPs have warned the PM not to backtrack on his pledge - and urged him to unlock fully next month.
Tory MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group, said: “This delay is already causing devastation and must be the final time ministers impose these sorts of restrictions."
Infections passed the 10,000 mark yesterday as the Delta variant continues to spread throughout the UK.
According to a Public Health England (PHE) report published yesterday, the total number of Delta cases detected has gone up by 33,630 cases from 42,323 last week.
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It’s also a five-fold increase from two weeks ago, when the figure was 12,341.
PHE said 99 per cent of new cases are the Delta variant, meaning it the most dominant strain in circulation.