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Strict rules that force those who test positive for Covid to self-isolate are set to be scrapped.
Last September, MPs extended laws that force those who catch the virus – as well as unvaccinated people who may have been exposed to it – to self-isolate for ten days.
But Government officials now assume that mandatory self-isolation will be ditched in March when the legal powers expire.
'Working assumption [is] that legal duties will cease after March,' a document written last month states.
A scheme that pays out £500 to those on low incomes who are self-isolating is expected to be axed at the same time to save cash. The Test and Trace Support Payment has paid out £167.9 million to 335,000 low-income workers during the pandemic.
Officials are also drawing up plans to slash the costs of the NHS's contact-tracing system, which attempts to find those who might have been exposed to coronavirus
Officials are also drawing up plans to slash the costs of the NHS's contact-tracing system,
