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in this fashion. i m quite sure that an apology will be forthcoming. - but first, the health secretary has announced that fully vaccinated people in england won t have to self isolate if a close contact tests positive for covid. the new rule will apply from the 16th of august, and the same policy will also apply to anyone under the age of 18. at the moment, people identified as close contacts of a confirmed coronavirus case are required to self isolate for up to ten days when contacted by test and trace. sajid javid told mps the government was taking a risk based approach that recognised the huge benefits the vaccine was providing. so, mr speaker, from the 16th of august, when even more people will have the protection of both doses and when modelling suggests the risks from the virus will be even lower, anyone who is a close contact of a positive case will no longer have to self isolate if they have been fully vaccinated. as we make this change, we will be drawing on the huge capacity we have built for testing and sequencing, and advising close contacts who are fully vaccinated to take a pcr test