England Calls Time on Pandemic With Plan to Lift All Covid Curbs
- Johnson to end legal rule to self-isolate this month
- Many governments are trying to get life back to normal
Boris Johnson
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to scrap self-isolation rules for people in England who test positive for Covid-19, ending the last of the pandemic restrictions that have dominated daily life for the past two years.
The dramatic step is due to take effect later this month and would move England beyond other major Western countries in relaxing virus curbs. While regulations forcing people to self-isolate at home for five days are only set to expire on March 24, Johnson said Wednesday he expects to lift them “a full month early.”