LONDON (Reuters) – Scrapping COVID tests and isolation periods in England could lead to rapid epidemic growth as people’s behaviour changes more swiftly than at previous times in the coronavirus pandemic, government advisers said in a document published on Friday.
“While behaviour change following the lifting of restrictions has previously been gradual, a sudden change, such as an end to testing and isolation, has the scope to lead to a return to rapid epidemic growth,” the government’s advisory pandemic modelling group SPI-M-O said, citing work done at the University of Warwick.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout; Editing by Kate Holton)
