good morning. welcome, thanks for joining. a senior government minister has given his support to reducing the coronavirus isolation period in england. speaking to the sunday times, the former vaccines minister now education secretary nadhim zahawi backed the idea of isolating for five days instead of seven. our political correspondent jonathan blake has more details. jonathan, nadhim zahawi has suggested he would back a move to reduce the covid isolation period down to five days? it would be. not least for the government to do this after the united states reduce the isolation period there down to five days, the uk health security agency said it would be a move that would be counter productive. some believed that it would be too risky to allow people out of isolation after such a
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short period of time and they would continue to be infectious. but as we know, the sheer numbers of people isolating at the moment, having tested positive for coronavirus, is putting a huge strain on the nhs but other sectors of the economy as well so there are these calls for the government to take a step to reduce it and nadhim zahawi has given his backing to that. in an interview with the sunday times this morning. you said that if it were to be recommended that weather case it be even more helpful that it is not necessarily something ministers are going to do unilaterally, it would need advice from scientists, advisers and as i say at the moment it doesn t look like they will follow us s lead and cut the period anytime soon. and there are reports this morning that the government might be changing its policy on lateral flow tests too? yes, i think this is perhaps a sign of something to come. of course at the moment, lateralflow tests availability issues aside are there
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