Daily contact testing

There is now also a workplace daily contact testing scheme offering an alternative to self-isolation for contacts of confirmed Covid cases taking place in sectors providing essential services. These include food distribution and production, emergency services, transport networks, defence, prisons, waste collection and energy.

Workers can choose to take part in daily contact testing, rather than self-isolate. This involves taking a lateral flow test each day for seven days at an approved testing site within the workplace or, for days on which they do not get tested at an approved testing site, self-isolating at home. They must self-isolate until they take their first lateral flow test, except they can travel to work to take that test.

More information can be found searching on gov.uk for NHS Test and Trace service in the workplace.