BCHS QUICKLINKS UPDATE

From Monday 21st February, the Government is removing the guidance for staff and students in most education and childcare settings to undertake twice-weekly asymptomatic testing.

BCHS QUICKLINKS UPDATE

The Department for Education sent an email update to schools and education settings yesterday.

Fully vaccinated adults and those aged under 18 who are close contacts are no longer advised to test daily for seven days and the legal requirement for close contacts who are not fully vaccinated to self-isolate will be removed.

Routine contact tracing ends, including venue check-ins on the NHS COVID-19 app.

Self-isolation support payments, national funding for practical support and the medicine delivery service will no longer be available. From April, the Government will update guidance setting out the ongoing steps that people with COVID-19 should take to be careful and considerate of others, similar to advice on other infectious diseases.Adults and children who test positive are advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least five full days and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received two negative test results on consecutive days. Until 1 April, the government still advises people who test positive to stay at home. The legal requirement to self-isolate ends.For all students, families and staff, this means the following: The UK Government has confirmed that all domestic legal restriction relating to COVID-19 have ended with effect from 24th February 2022 as we are asked to begin to treat COVID like other infectious diseases. COVID-19 Response from 24th February 2022

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