The legal requirement to isolate if positive may go by the end of the month. What are the risks?
The last remaining Covid restriction in England could be gone in weeks, after the prime minister announcedThe plan had been to end it on 24 March - but if the trends remained positive, Boris Johnson said, it could go a month early.The case for relaxing is not clear cutCertainly questions are being asked about the politics of the move, with the prime minister under continuing pressure.
Coupled with this is the rise of a sub-variant of Omicron, BA.2, thought to be even more transmissible than the version, first identified in South Africa, that caused the Christmas surge and now accounts for an estimated one out of every six infections. Prof Hunter would have preferred to wait a little bit longer to see what happens with infections and the sub-variant.
This winter, the testing system has been picking up only half of all infections - so at the peak, an estimated 200,000 people a day in England who should have been were not being formally asked to isolate.
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