COVID-19: People who have had two injections can avoid isolating themselves after infectious contact in the future, suggests expert | UK News

People who have had both COVID-19 injections and who have come in contact with an infected person may not have to self-isolate for 10 days in the future, a public health expert has suggested.

Linda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, said Britain could follow the United States which changed its quarantine guidelines for those who had received both coronavirus dose.

She pointed to repeated statements by the UK government’s chief medical adviser Professor Chris Whitty and others that COVID-19[female[feminine would not disappear and society would have to learn to live with it.

Prof Bauld made his comments as he was warned that a third wave of coronavirus infections “is definitely underway” and the “race is firmly on” between vaccine deployment and the highly transmissible Delta or Indian variant. .

The latest data showed that the Delta variant now represents almost all cases of coronavirus in the UK, according to Public Health England.

It comes like everyone from 18 years old can now book to be vaccinated In England.

Regarding the likelihood of a change in quarantine rules for fully vaccinated people, Professor Bauld told Times Radio: “It’s already in place in the United States.

“The Center for Disease Control changed its guidelines some time ago to say that people who had received both doses of the vaccine and about 10 to 14 days after the second dose did not have to self-isolate, so I think we are moving in that direction. “

She added: “As we have heard repeatedly from Chris Whitty and others, this virus is not going to go away.

“We are going to have to live by his side, that means we are going to have infections in the future, so being in contact with an infected person will always be a possibility.”

Professor Adam Finn, who advises the government on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), called the idea of ​​eliminating 10-day self-isolation for people with double exposure “interesting”. sting.

He told Times Radio: “We know the vaccine, in particular …