🚨Interesting and important changes to the self-isolation rules - not in force until 16 August

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self- Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/851/…
Basically, if you are fully vaccinated at least 14 days before you need to self-isolate, you don't have to self-isolate.

Also applies if you can provide medical evidence you can't get a vaccination ImageImage
I should also have pointed out the rather important point that this exemption also applies to children, that is people under the age of 18.

Also people who have participated in vaccine trials (as I think @TomRHickman was arguing for)
Won't apply (currently) to people who have had the vaccine administered outside of the UK, even if a vaccine approved for use in the UK.

I wonder if that is amenable to legal challenge, seems potentially irrational ( though govt will say it's about being able to prove it?) Image
Just one other point, it is interesting that there is a change to the rules to allow people to leave self isolation to get an antibody test. This suggests at some point antibody testing may be another route to avoid self isolation (i.e. for people who have had Covid recently)
When the policy was announced I thought that this was going to be part of it, maybe they have not figured out yet how it will work.

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18 Jul
🚨New travel regulations coming into force tomorrow, 19 July

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/865/… Image
This is the explanatory note - there are lots of amendments but it looks like they are all focussed on allowing Amber list ('Category 2') arrivals to not quarantine if they (a) are vaccinated or are (b) a child (i.e. under 18) ImageImage
As announced recently, this does not apply to (a) people who have been in "Metropolitan France" or (b) people who have been in red list ('Category 3') countries Image
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Will all of the senior govt officials and ministers who have been in close contact with Javid now be self isolating or will they all be enrolled in a novel government experiment where they don’t have to?
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I appreciate people are focussed on 'freedom day' but these regulations are really significant - the first time in law that vaccinated people have been given greater rights than non-vaccinated people.

So from 16 August, only un-vaccinated adults will have to self-isolate
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The self-isolation rules have rarely been focus of people's attention but they are onerous - and health data from NHS Test & Trace can be shared with police (this is explicitly provided for) who can enforce with fixed penalty notices which begin at £1,000 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1045…
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Since "Nuremberg" is trending I recommend this @FullFact article which dispels some of the very common (in my timeline, anyway) "the Covid-19 vaccines are experimental" memes fullfact.org/health/nurembe…
"... when we talk about Pfizer or AstraZeneca [vaccines], we’re out of the auspices of the Nuremberg Code because this is a product that has been trialled, with appropriate ethics in place, and has been approved and is now in production and being used globally."
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If government guidance says face coverings reduce Covid transmission individual businesses should be able to impose face covering mandates if that’s what their health and safety risk assessment concludes. Should be subject to health (physical & mental) exemptions…
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Thinking back to the semi-final of Italia 90 when my parents wouldn’t let me watch the second half and I watched it on a fuzzy tv with no ariel. My kids are watching tonight (if they don’t fall asleep!)
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