{"id":54584,"date":"2021-12-14T16:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=54584"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:59:27","slug":"self-isolating-and-daily-covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/self-isolating-and-daily-covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-isolating and daily COVID-19 testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s still a requirement for anyone who has any of the symptoms of coronavirus &#8211; a high temperature, new and continuous cough, and change to your usual sense of taste or smell &#8211; to self-isolate and arrange a PCR test.\u202fThat rule&#8217;s not changed.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what has changed this week are the requirements for people who are identified as close contacts to others who test positive for COVID-19:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>From today (Tuesday 14 December), people who are double vaccinated or between 5 years and 18 and a half years old, who are identified as a close contact of someone with coronavirus, whether Omicron or not, will need to <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnks.gd%2Fl%2FeyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMTcsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTEyMTQuNTAyNzYzODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5nb3YudWsvZ292ZXJubWVudC9uZXdzL2RhaWx5LXJhcGlkLXRlc3RpbmctZm9yLWNvdmlkLTE5LWNvbnRhY3RzLWxhdW5jaGVzLXRoaXMtd2VlayJ9.f1nvChGe81jGASKgbBeJqc83zkqd9_ztJxyJ0QXroW8%2Fs%2F172374962%2Fbr%2F123049626213-l&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cmike.bomford%40devon.gov.uk%7C772341c1db804b976d5508d9bf1c78ed%7C8da13783cb68443fbb4b997f77fd5bfb%7C0%7C0%7C637750951383160795%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=iNpcQWwliwiHZfCdCliWFgajxtjCncf8qN3fc248fIg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take a lateral flow device (LFD) test every day for a week.&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li>People who are unvaccinated and identified as a close contact of someone with the virus will need to self-isolate for 10 days.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-54584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-social-care","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"category_priority":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2028-04-05 13:50:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54585,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions\/54585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}