'Presumably we can explain some of the shorter period because the test would pick up the disease before symptoms'. Mr Hancock said: 'I think moving to seven-day daily testing for contacts would be HUGE for adherence, but going below that would serious worry people and imply we'd been getting it wrong. The policy drove down cases by around 4 per cent compared to ten-day isolation but 'almost certainly at the expense of reduced adherence', Sir Chris said.ĭata from Sage at the time suggested just one in five people fully complied with the self-isolation rules. Mr Hancock questioned whether the two-week isolation advice had been 'too long all this time'. We would expect symptomatic people to get a PCR test as normal.' Sir Chris said: 'We could push out to seven but the benefits really flatten off after five. 'This sounds very risky and we can't go backwards - wouldn't test every day for ten days be a safer starting point,' he said. The former health secretary said he was 'amazed'. And we think adherence likely to be good.' Sir Chris said: 'The modelling suggests it's pretty well as good. But Mr Hancock replied: 'So test every day for just five days? That sounds like a massive loosening'.
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