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Social distancing, or physical distancing, [2] [3] [4] is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures taken to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.
On 26 January, the Government announced the extension of the Level 5 lockdown restrictions until 5 March, along with a number of new measures including a mandatory 14-day quarantine period for all people travelling into the country without a negative COVID-19 test, including all arrivals from Brazil and South Africa.
Contact close out: This stage is dependent on the duration of quarantine for people with and without symptoms. [7] The ideal number of days for quarantine and isolation are determined by the health agencies. [7] Once the contact adequately completes the quarantine/isolation for the defined number of days, they can be closed out. [7]
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A stay-at-home order, safer-at-home order, movement control order – also referred to by loose use of the terms quarantine, isolation, or lockdown – is an order from a government authority that restricts movements of a population as a mass quarantine strategy for suppressing or mitigating an epidemic or pandemic by ordering residents to stay home except for essential tasks or for work in ...
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17 December – New guidelines require close contacts of anyone testing positive for COVID to self-isolate again, even if fully vaccinated, and get a PCR test. [408] 19 December – The booster programme is opened to all adults over the age of 18. [409] Northern Ireland is to receive an extra £75m from the Treasury to help deal with COVID. [410]
This means staying home if you test positive for the virus—though isolation guidelines have changed quite a bit since SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes illness with Covid-19, first emerged.