The government has added several more sectors to the list of workers who don't have to self-isolate as part of a pilot scheme.
People working in HMRC, communications, defence and prisons will be able to avoid quarantine under the new plans.
If people working in the sectors are "pinged" by the NHS app and told to isolate they may not have to.
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The exemptions will last until August 16 and will be open to a "limited number of named workers" in the named critical services - reports Mirror Online.
It comes a week after people working in police, fire and the Border Force were able to take daily tests instead of quarantining.
The scheme was first announced after it was revealed that a record 618,903 people in England and Wales were sent self-isolation alerts last week.
Sectors whose workers don't have to self-isolate
- Energy
- Civil Nuclear
- Digital infrastructure
- Food production and supply
- Waste
- Water
- Veterinary medicines
- Essential chemicals
- Essential transport
- Medicines
- Medical devices
- Clinical consumable supplies
- Emergency service
- Border control
- Essential defence outputs
- Local government
- Manufacturing maintenance
PLUS
- Engineers
- Specialist reach truck drivers
- Official vets
- Environmental health officers
- Landfill operators
- Water engineers
- Laboratory staff essential to the batch release of medicines
- Environment agency staff operating critical flood defence assets
AND THE LATEST....
- Prisons
- Defence
- Communications
- Space
- Fish
- HMRC
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