Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the risk of further transmitting covid-19 where NHS Track and Trace informs patients diagnosed with covid-19 that their 10 day isolation period has ended while those patients are still symptomatic and continue to test positive with a covid-19 test.

Those testing positive for COVID-19 are legally obliged to self-isolate until 10 days after the onset of symptoms or for people who did not have symptoms, 10 days after the date they were tested. In the circumstances where a person remains symptomatic after an initial period of self-isolation, they would be told to continue to self-isolate.