The Government has increased the list of sectors whose workers will be able to avoid self-isolating as part of a pilot scheme, it has been announced.
Now people working in the HMRC, communications, defence, prisons and space will be able to dodge quarantining, once they have been pinged by the NHS app.
On top of this, ministers have also added 1,200 new testing sites across England, boosting the total number of sites to 2,000.
These new measures, agreed at a Covid-O committee meeting today, have been added to "avoid disruption to crucial services", the government said.
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