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The self-isolation period for people in contact with someone who has coronavirus is being cut from 14 to 10 days across the UK, it has been announced, and could be dispensed with entirely early next year.A joint statement from the chief medical officers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said the period for which people have to quarantine after returning from overseas countries not on a safe travel corridor list is also being cut to 10 days.The change in self- stanley cup isolation rules has already come into force in Wales, and will happen in the other UK nations from Monday, applying retrospectively even for those already self-isolating.Keir Starmer is self-isolating for a second time after a staff member in his private office tested positive for coronavirus. The new guidance means the Labour leader can leave self-isolation on Monday, rather than later in the week.The joint statement from the chief medical officers said that after a review of the evidence, they were confident about cutting the time period, adding: We urge everyone to self-isolate when appropriate 鈥?it will save lives. The 10-day period already applies to people who have suspected coronav stanley vaso irus symptoms or have a positive test.The chief medical officers say people are most infec stanley flask tious in the first two days before developing symptoms, and that by day 10, just 1% to 2% are still capable of passing on the virus to others.Englands deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, said the evidence was that the t Lwdq Christian Brothers asked alleged abuse victims to pay costs, says lawyer
The government s c Stanley cup website hief law officer has given his strongest warning yet to MPs that refusing to comply with European human rights rulings on prisoner voting rights risks a degree of anarchy .The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, said the issue of giving convicted prisoners the vote was profoundly symbolic in the British debate on European human rights laws, but that it was no slight matter for Britain to be in breach of its international obligations.He made his remarks during a Westminster hearing of a joint committee of MPs and peers who were considering a draft prisoner voting bill.The meeting also heard a strong warning from Thorbj酶rn Jagland, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, which oversees the European human rights court at Strasbourg.Jagland said it would be unp stanley ca recedented for Britain to refuse to implement the European court ruling. He said that defying the ruling or even taking the nuclear option of withdrawing from the European human rights convention would be inconceivable given Britain s role as a founding father of the convention and the court after the second world war. If we start to pick and choose the judgments from the court, then the court will be weakened and have no meaning, Jagland declared. Europe cannot afford to let the UK leave the whole convention system which is so important from a pan-European perspective 鈥?the UK is the best pupil in the class. It has always b stanley cup een seen as the leading natio |
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