Coronavirus: Quarantine
(asked on 3rd December 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to require school-age contacts of Omicron variant cases to self-isolate.
This question was answered on 14th December 2021
Individuals notified by NHS Test and Trace or a public health official that they are a close contact of someone confirmed or suspected to have the COVID-19 Omicron variant are legally required to self-isolate, regardless of their age, or vaccination status or negative test result. This change came into force on 30 November 2021.