Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams The rules on who has to self-isolate after contact with a positive case of coronavirus have changed from today.
Children and fully vaccinated adults who get told they are a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case no longer need to self-isolate.
More than 75 per cent of the adult population of the UK have now been double-jabbed. Read more: Back in July, the government announced that the success of the UK’s vaccine programme would allow ministers to move from a "rules-based system to personal responsibility" in August.
England follows in the footsteps of other UK nations after Wales changed its rules to allow fully-jabbed people to avoid isolation last week, while
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