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Coronavirus: Quarantine

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL4661, tabled on 18 May 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the statement by Professor Tim Spector on 18 May that up to 70,000 people in the UK with COVID-19 are not being told to self-isolate.

Answered on

9 July 2020

Following scientific and medical advice, the list of symptoms was updated on 18 May to include loss or change to sense of smell or taste. We continue to be guided by the scientific and medical evidence.