United Kingdom Decreases Covid-19 Quarantine Time to 7 Days

The government of the United Kingdom has shortened the compulsory corona virus quarantine period in the United Kingdom to seven days from ten days for the people, who have been getting the negative lateral flow tests on the two consecutive days.

On Wednesday, 22^nd December 2021, Sajid Javid, health minister of United Kingdom said, in order to decrease the disruption and also following the expert clinical advice, and the people, who has received negative test result on the sixth and seventh days of the quarantine period of the people that is going to be allowed for leaving the quarantine.

The country of United Kingdom has currently been batting an increase in the cases of the highly transmissible Omicron covid-19 variant, along with the fears of growing fears that, the health services can possibly be overwhelmed. So far, the government of the United Kingdom has also resisted for emulating a number of the countries in the mainland of the continent of Europe that had imposed the strict measures for the corona virus.

The mandatory novel corona virus quarantine period had been decreased from 14 days to 10 days in the later period of the year 2020, as the alpha variant of the novel corona virus spreading rapidly in the different regions of the United Kingdom. The government of the United Kingdom has also announced that, it has signed two contracts for a combined course of 4.25 million corona virus antiviral pills in the country.