People in Liverpool won't have to isolate if they test negative after coming into contact with a covid case - provided they get daily negative tests.
As it stands, anyone who comes into close contact with another person who has tested positive for coronavirus would have to isolate for 14 days, even if they test negative.
But from this week, if you take a covid test daily and continue to test negative, you will not have to isolate.
This comes after Boris Johnson said a "very substantial fall in infections" has occurred in Liverpool after more than 200,000 people took part in community testing.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, the Prime Minister said that daily testing would be used as part of attempts to "end automatic isolation" for close contacts of those testing positive for Covid-19.
He said: "Beginning in Liverpool later this week, contacts who are tested every day for a week will only need to isolate if they themselves test positive.
"If successful, this approach will be extended across the health system next month and to the whole of England from January."
Mr Johnson added that work is ongoing to allow Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to benefit from these advances.
He also told MPs: "Together with NHS Test and Trace and our fantastic armed forces, we will now launch a major community testing programme offering all local authorities in Tier 3 areas in England a six-week surge of testing.
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"The system is untried and there are of course many unknowns, but if it works we should be able to offer those who test negative the prospect of fewer restrictions, for example meeting up in certain places with others who have also tested negative.
"Those towns and regions which engage in community testing will have a much greater chance of easing the rules, the tiering they currently endure."
