KEY DATES: What covid rules are changing and when?

Monday 31 January 2022

Mandatory masks are going and work from home guidance will be lifted in Jersey from tomorrow - the first in a series of big steps away from a pandemic 'emergency' and towards 'normality'.

On Friday, Ministers laid out their 'De-escalation Plan', which will see the last covid measures lifted by the end of March.

Here are the key dates you need to know...

Tuesday 1 February

• Masks: legal requirement to wear in shops and other public spaces ends (separate policies for schools and healthcare settings). However, islanders will still have to wear one to board a bus.
• Work from home: Recommendation to ‘work from home where possible’ ends.
• Business contact tracing: Removal of legal requirement for Jersey businesses to collect contact details.

Monday 7 February

• Travel policy: All requirements, including border testing and the need to fill in a pre-departure travel form will come to an end.
• Government contact tracing: Government of Jersey-led contact tracing, including schools, comes to an end, to be replaced by recommendation that positive cases inform people they’ve met.
• School rules: Education policies are refreshed. This is likely to include a requirement that children who have symptoms and/or test positive for covid stay away from school, isolate and get a PCR test. Also, children will be required to do a lateral flow test (LFT) each week-day morning when at school, at least for short term.
• LFT reporting: End of recommendation that people report negative LFT results, except release from isolation.

By Monday 28 February

• Rules and regulations: All covid regulations and orders to expire, except the overarching law enabling rules to be brought in, which will end in August. Regulations requiring screening, assessment and isolation at the border, if needed, will expire by 31 March.
• Future of STAC: Completion of review of whether STAC - the group of scientific and technical staff who advise ministers on covid - is still needed.
• Future of CAM: Meetings of ‘Competent Authority Ministers’ – the group of ministers who have legal responsibility for covid-related laws – to meet far less frequently.
• A new strategy: 'Post-emergency-phase covid strategy' to be approved and published.

By 31 March

• Isolation: People who test positive for covid will no longer be required to isolate by law, even if they have symptoms.
• Reporting of statistics: From now until April, the Government will begin to phase out the range, volume and frequency of data about covid that it provides to the public, including daily case numbers.

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