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AtW started a topic Self-isolation to be scrapped for Covid case contacts, Government reveal

23 November 2020, 06:28
Self-isolation to be scrapped for Covid case contacts, Government reveal

“ Self-isolation to be scrapped for Covid case contacts, Government reveals

Under new plans, contacts of those infected will take daily tests for a week and not be made to stay home

Self-isolation will no longer be required for contacts of positive Covid cases under plans announced by the Government on Monday.

Instead, contacts of those who test positive will be asked to undergo daily tests for seven days, and allowed to go about their business in the meantime.

Ministers will say that the current system – which was criticised by the Government’s own advisers as “massively ineffective and hated” – will be dismantled nationwide in January, if pilot schemes succeed.“

Self-isolation to be scrapped for Covid case contacts, Government reveals

So, for X cases per day with say 10 contacts each who will test daily for 7 days means what, 70*X extra tests needed, plus extra increase over those 7 days when new cases are found, that gets us to say 7*70*X.

If X is close to 20k as it is now, the 7*70*20000=9,800,000 daily test capacity will be required to implement this fantasy.

Yeah, that will work.
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