Table of contents

  1. Using this guide
  2. Circuit breaker
  3. Clinically extremely vulnerable
  4. Coronavirus and COVID-19
  5. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  6. Deaths and COVID-19
  7. Extended households
  8. Eat Out to Help Out
  9. Firebreak
  10. Furlough
  11. Local lockdowns and restrictions
  12. Lockdown
  13. Long COVID
  14. New variants of the coronavirus
  15. NHS Test and Trace
  16. Outbreak or pandemic?
  17. Pre-coronavirus, pre-pandemic and pre-lockdown
  18. Quarantine
  19. R number
  20. Self Employment Income Support Scheme Grants
  21. Self-isolation
  22. Shielding
  23. Social distancing
  24. Spread
  25. Support bubble
  26. Vaccines and vaccinations 
  27. Waves

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Circuit breaker

A circuit breaker is a strict set of restrictions that could be introduced for a fixed period of time, for example, a minimum of two weeks. It is designed to help slow down the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in local communities. 

A circuit breaker would include a ban on household mixing and non-essential travel as well as the closure of non-essential shops and hospitality. In Wales, a circuit breaker has been called a firebreak. 

Circuit breaker should be lower case and two words.