No decision on repayment for positive COVID-19 tests

The British government has taken no decision on whether to pay 500 pounds ($683) to everyone in England who tests positive for COVID-19, environment minister George Eustice said on Friday. Papers cited an insurance plan paper which they said showed the federal government was considering such a proceed to encourage more persons to have tests for the brand new coronavirus though it would price 453 million pounds weekly. Studies show many persons ignore recommendations to self-isolate if they have get in touch with with someone who has the virus as a result of the financial impact to be unable to do the job while quarantining for 10 days. Some low-paid persons already get a 500-pound payment if indeed they self-isolate. The newspaper studies said the federal government was looking at a universal payment.

"I'm not likely to comment on this specific paper but we've generally kept it under review," Eustice said. "No decisions to be made on this, but that is a powerful, fast-moving situation with the pandemic." Eustice said the government recognised that self-isolating was "a financial problem for some." Conditions surged in Britain by the end of last year, fuelled by a fresh highly transmissible stress of the virus which includes put medical service under excessive pressure. On Thursday, Britain recorded 37,892 brand-new cases with 1,290 deaths.

Lockdowns are in place across the UK to attempt to curb the pass on of the virus, but a prevalence study suggested infections hadn't fallen in the primary days of the brand new lockdown introduced in England on Jan. 5. The government has warned persons who break rules they'll face punishment by law enforcement. Primary Minister Boris Johnson explained on Thursday it was too early to state when restrictions could possibly be lifted, but expectations a mass vaccination program will pave a way for a return to some extent of normality by the spring.