People who are fully vaccinated will not have to self-isolate if they are a close contact of a coronavirus case from August 16, British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Tuesday. Javid told British lawmakers in the parliament that the same policy would also apply to anyone under the age of 18 from that date.

The government would give more details later this week on self-isolation rules for international travellers, he added."We will have a more proportionate system of test, trace and isolate, and it is absolutely right that those that have been double jabbed, we can take a different approach than the one we take today," he said.

People who are fully vaccinated will not have to self-isolate if they are a close contact of a coronavirus case from August 16, British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Tuesday. Javid told British lawmakers in the parliament that the same policy would also apply to anyone under the age of 18 from that date.

The government would give more details later this week on self-isolation rules for international travellers, he added."We will have a more proportionate system of test, trace and isolate, and it is absolutely right that those that have been double jabbed, we can take a different approach than the one we take today," he said.