Covid

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Covid doesn't have to mean that there's no public health measures, whatoever. I think given where we are at the moment, intims ifti level of risk we're facing from covid, there would be an extremely high bar for bringing in any new restrictions. A lot of people would like to see some protections remaining in place and one of those is having with a good surveillance. And of course, for some people it is very hard to self isolate. Yes. That's to fu lof people, and for different reasons.

Last week Boris Johnson announced that all Covid regulations in England, including the requirement to isolate after testing positive, were due to be abolished on 24 February. Whilst the Omicron variant has caused fewer hospitalisations and deaths than many predicted, some scientists say the changes may be going too far, too soon. Madeleine Finlay gets the Guardian science correspondent Hannah Devlin’s view on whether there’s scientific evidence backing up this decision and what the changes could look like. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod