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Isolation is mandatory from today in England for anyone who has tested positive or has been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19, and violations are punishable by fines.
The fines range from 1,000 pounds (1,102 euros), the amount that is currently applied to those who do not comply with quarantine after arriving from abroad, and 10,000 pounds (11,019 euros), for repeat offenders or more serious offenses, including companies that oblige employees to work.
Therefore, if a person shows symptoms or tests positive, they are required by law to go into isolation (before volunteering) for a period of 10 days after the onset of symptoms or after the date of the test. , if you have no symptoms.
Other household members should be isolated for 14 days after the date of the initial positive test of the infected person or after the onset of symptoms, namely continuous cough, elevated temperature, or loss of taste and smell.
If someone receives instructions from officials of the public testing and monitoring system [NHS Test and Trace] Because they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive, that person is also legally bound to comply with isolation, regardless of whether they have no symptoms or have tested negative.
The police will be responsible for monitoring compliance with the rules, but in the meantime the government will introduce a payment of £ 500 (€ 551) for low-income people who need to be isolated.
Other people who need to stop working can apply for sickness benefits or other social support.
These measures apply only in England, as the autonomous governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are responsible for the rules themselves.
The Boris Johnson executive justified the need to “ensure adherence and reduce transmission of covid-19” at a time when the virus is spreading again in the UK.
In the last seven days, 40,712 new cases were registered, a daily average of 5,816, with a total of 434,969 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
“As cases increase, it is imperative that we act,” British Health Minister Matt Hancock justified today.
“These simple measures can make a big difference in reducing the transmission of the virus, but we will not hesitate to take other measures if cases continue to increase,” he added.
However, the government praised the “enthusiastic response” from 10 million people who installed the NHS COVID-19 mobile app in the first two days, launched on Thursday and seen as an important monitoring tool.
However, a growing dissatisfaction with the scale and scope of the measures is notorious, not only at the popular level, visible by the protests in London on Sunday for the second consecutive weekend, but also within the Conservative party itself.
On Wednesday, the government needs authorization from Parliament to renew emergency powers, but Congressman Graham Brady introduced a proposed amendment to give the House of Commons the right to debate and vote on these new laws.
More than 40 Conservative MPs have already voiced their support for the amendment, which, if selected by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, and has the opposition vote, could represent a defeat for the Government, which it claims you need flexibility to respond quickly. to the covid-19 pandemic.
“It is not a matter of agreeing or not with the government’s strategy, it is about the ministers being accountable to Parliament,” justified Mark Harper, one of the conservative deputies who signed the proposal.
The United Kingdom is the European country with the highest number of deaths in Europe, 41,988 officially, although other official statistics that account for suspected cases whose death certificate refers to the support of the covid-19 for some 57,600 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
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