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The COVID-19 threat level system was introduced, and the "Stay Home" phase was announced to be equivalent to Level 4 (where 1 meant "COVID-19 is not known to be present in the UK", and 5 meant "The circulation of COVID-19 is high and rising exponentially and there is a material risk of healthcare being overwhelmed"). [citation needed]
Boris Johnson told MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday more than 90% of over-60s across the UK have now had booster vaccines, with England set to treat the virus like flu.
The regulations set out rules whereby private suppliers could have their tests officially validated for use under this regime. [30] On 17 December 2020, further requirements were imposed on private providers of COVID-19 tests by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020. [31]
The quarantine rules of this section were largely retained by the 4 October 2021 amendments, re-purposed as rules for Red list non eligible travellers. [8] Following removal of all of remaining countries from the Red list on 1 November, and again on 15 December, there were after the latter date no countries to which the following Red list rules ...
There are three vaccines currently in use; following approval of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine , vaccines developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca , and the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Moderna have been rolled out.
As of March 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer advises a five-day isolation period when you test positive for COVID-19, but recommends taking other precautions once ...
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/685) [2] were the first local lockdown regulations in England, coming into force on 4 July 2020 on the day that the nationwide regulations were relaxed by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 which allowed most ...
Professor Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer, says that the UK will go through the "most dangerous time" in the weeks before the deployment of COVID vaccines begin to have an impact. [66] Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms that 2.3 million people have now received a COVID vaccine. [67]