Coronavirus: Quarantine for COVID-19 contacts could be cut to seven days
Contacts of people infected with coronavirus may have to self-isolate for as little as seven days amid concerns in Whitehall about the levels of public compliance with the NHS Test and Trace system.taskforce are understood to be examining the case for reducing the current fortnight period of isolation to between 10 days and a week.
The move, which would not apply to those who test positive for the disease, comes amid growing dissatisfaction with the performance of the system from ministers and MPs. Boris Johnson was said to have become"disillusioned" with statistics provided by the service after they proved to be wrong, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
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