UK PM Johnson speeds up plan to end COVID self-isolation rule


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  • Wednesday, 09 Feb 2022

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a sign amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

LONDON (Reuters) - People in England with COVID-19 will from late February no longer be legally required to self-isolate to stem the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, proposing to speed up existing plans to live with the virus.

Johnson ended almost all COVID-19 restrictions in England last July, and last month lifted "Plan B" measures that had been temporarily imposed to slow the spread of the more recent Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

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