The Isle of Wight Council is urging people to be prepared in case they need to self-isolate as the law now states that people need to self-isolate if they test positive for coronavirus, or are contacted by the test and trace service.
To support the community through this difficult time, the Council has produced a helpful self-isolation guide — an online toolkit containing advice, support and signposting information to ensure residents are well prepared.
Council leader, Dave Stewart, said:
“We know self-isolation isn’t easy but it is vitally important people do take the time to make a plan in case they are ever asked to self-isolate.
“How will I access food? Who will collect my medication? Who will walk the dog? These are the kinds of questions residents need to consider and why good preparation will help ease some of the concerns they may have.
“Our self-isolation guide can help by providing useful telephone numbers for local support and delivery services, website links for further assistance as well as top tips and general advice on staying healthy and active at home while self-isolating. I would urge all residents to download it now.”
Residents will need to self-isolate if they:
- have any symptoms of coronavirus (a high temperature, a new, continuous cough or a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste);
- have tested positive for coronavirus — this means you have coronavirus;
- live with someone who has symptoms (if the person subsequently is confirmed negative, there is no need to self-isolate as a contact) or has tested positive;
- someone in your support bubble has symptoms (if the person subsequently is confirmed negative, there is no need to self-isolate as a contact) or has tested positive;
- are told by NHS Test and Trace that you’ve been in contact with a person with coronavirus;
- are returning from a country that does not have an air-bridge agreement.
If any of these things happen to you, you must stay at home because this helps to stop the virus from spreading to other people.
It is more than likely you will have little or no notice that you must self-isolate.
Self-isolation is not the same as lockdown — it is more restrictive and it will help if you have a plan.
The legal duty to self-isolate came into force on Monday (September 28) with fines starting at £1,000 and increasing up to £10,000 for repeat offenders or serious breaches.
People who have received a positive test must isolate for ten days after displaying symptoms or their test date if they do not have symptoms, while members of their household must isolate for 14 days.
You must:
- not go to work, school or public places – work from home if you can;
- not go on public transport or use taxis;
- not go out to get food and medicine;
- not have visitors in your home, including friends and family – except for people providing essential care;
- not go out to exercise.
Download the council’s useful self-isolation planning guide to help you and your household to prepare if you must self-isolate in the future.
But its OK to ignore the law and not self isolate if you are a Scottish MP and want to travel on public transport AFTER getting your positive test result. OR maybe drive to Barnard Castle to “test your eyesight”
Here we go. Cummings was in a car, and it was before these regulations. Also he is a private citizen, not an MP as Stephen Kinnock is.
It was against the lock down rules at that time, I know you Tories have to defend this government rubbish but try and be sensible
She is above the law like other MPs.She did refer herself to police after being spotted on the train. Whether Scots or English police depends on the likelyhood of being nicked!
Well done council panic buying here we go
Yes we all must fill our pantries to bursting with soup, sugar, toilet rolls, and bags of flour; again.
I am sure whilst in the darkest moments of this terrible illness I shall feel like baking a cake, or making a pie, and running to the toilet despite likely not have eaten anything for days.
There are plenty of toilet rolls in Waitrose and no bouncers
Jog on.Im doing a Dominic Cummings
And don’t forget Key Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick drove 150 miles to his ‘second home’ after urging the nation to remain in their homes in a bid to tackle the coronavirus pandemic twice! Before Cummings, I think Cummings was a scapegoat (they always have one) to deflect attention from Jenrick as HE is being groomed for next P.M.
Don’t get the app or get tested .then you will not have to isolate .
Scaremongering panic buying yet again. Well done echo for letting us know
We need too do same as Sweden…not keep being forced too hide or shut down.
When will gov learn its just another virus which unfor kills.dont panic buy folks.!
Of course this latest ‘ advice’ from the council would have nothing to do with them putting the QR code sign outside the public toilets in Ryde to try and gather your details.
Boris’s Dad caught in a shop not wearing a mask, Scottish MP COVID positive but travelled by train from London to Scotland, D Cummings driving around the UK whilst everyone was supposed to be in lockdown!!!!!!! No wonder certain parts of the country are not doing as they are asked. Yes, it’s good to be organised and plans in place if COVID strikes, but hey, if we run out of milk we could always pop out down the shop and get some…. that would be alright wouldn’t it????????!!!!!!!???????? NO……….
Fear
And the reason echo has published this crap twice is??????
Scaremongering crap that is!.
Do as sweden does thats it.no pandemic EVER has EVER gone into any type of lockdown.
No mention how many other unrelated deaths have passed .flue, stroke,cancer
The peoole who test posotive…dont get sick…dont itu…n dont die?nope
All bit obsessive now gov. News just keep writing rubbish too scare …thats it boring.hands distance &masks….thats it .get things back too normal.sweden have.never had a lockdown.gov arr bunch of obsessed buffoons bossing our lives get lost now and leave us too ourselves.we cant keep hiding from it.
Gov are msking it all worse …not better.useless pilocks
Humanity and common sense is required here. You cannot ‘defeat’ an endemic virus.
Oxford Prof Sunetra Gupta, Epidemiologist
“What is most likely to happen—SARSCoV2 settles down to an endemic equilibrium such as.. influenza, bugs that cause pneumonia & other pathogens. We live lives normally. That’s what society is about—optimizing complex landscape of risks”