Anyone who has travelled to Manchester from any Tier 4 area should isolate for ten days

Anyone who has travelled to Manchester from any Tier 4 area should isolate for ten days even if they don’t have Covid symptoms, health officials warn Greater Manchester’s 10 Directors of Public Health issued guidance on Monday  Isolation period should start from December 19 and visitors must remain indoors No visitors should then be allowed … Read more

Katya Jones returns to Strictly after having to isolate following Covid-19 diagnosis

Katya Jones returned to Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday night, after having to take a two week hiatus.  The professional dancer, 31, and Nicola Adams, 38, were forced to withdraw from the competition after Katya tested positive for coronavirus.  But after completing her quarantine period, Katya appeared delighted to be back in the studios as … Read more

Jaguar Land Rover orders staff to turn OFF Test & Trace app to stop them having to isolate

Jaguar Land Rover orders staff to turn OFF Test & Trace app to stop them having to isolate ‘unnecessarily’ Halewood factory staff told to pause Test and Trace app to stop ‘false positives’  The company has had a number of Covid outbreaks, most recently in September  Advice to staff follows Test and Trace app guidance … Read more

NHS hospitals must isolate all patients from Denmark over mink-Covid fears

People admitted to NHS hospitals who have recently returned from Denmark will be treated in ‘strict’ quarantine due to fears about a mutated version of coronavirus caught from mink. Government guidance issued today also says people who test positive for Covid-19 within a fortnight of arriving from the Scandinavian nation must be isolated and sent to … Read more

Travelers to New York from TODAY can isolate for just four days if they provide a negative test

New York’s new policy comes into force today allowing travelers arriving in the state to isolate for just four days so long as they provide a negative COVID test before entering.  People entering the Empire State must provide a negative coronavirus test three days before their arrival, followed by a second negative test four days … Read more

Wayne Rooney tests NEGATIVE for coronavirus but is ‘angry’ at still having to isolate

Wayne Rooney tests NEGATIVE for coronavirus but is ‘angry and disappointed’ at still having to isolate for 14 days with his family after being visited by a friend who was later found to have tested positive for COVID-19 Derby’s Wayne Rooney was visited by friend Josh Bardsley to give him a watch  The friend was … Read more

More than 200 freshers are told to self isolate after 18 students tested positive for coronavirus

More than 200 freshers at Cambridge University halls of residence are told to self isolate after 18 students tested positive for coronavirus 233 students living at the West House have been told they must self-isolate Homerton College said students must isolate following  18 positive cases    The College said  the decision was based based on advice … Read more

Students slam universities for feeding them ‘junk food’ while they isolate in halls

Students are branding their university accommodation ‘the UK’s most expensive prison’ as they criticise the food supplied to them in isolation.  Undergraduates have branded food parcels as being filled with ‘junk’, forcing them to get their parents to send fresh fruit and vegetables.  And some students have claimed that universities have forgotten to give them … Read more

Pupils at Eton College sent home to isolate after ‘a significant number’ of students test positive

Pupils at £42k a year Eton College are sent home to isolate after ‘a significant number’ of students test positive – prompting concerns from anxious parents that the move will ‘spread coronavirus across the country’ ‘Significant number’ of students at college, near Windsor, test positive for Covid School bosses have decided to send entire Year … Read more

Infected Covid-19 Brits should get Netflix to self isolate at home, SAGE papers reveal 

Coronavirus-infected Britons should be given Netflix, Now TV and Amazon Prime to encourage them to stay at home, according to scientists advising the Government. The Independent Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) has urged health chiefs to consider a self-care package to boost poor self-isolation rates.  Its recommendation comes on the heels of a … Read more