Table of contents

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

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Quarantine

“Quarantine” refers to the period of managed hotel quarantine that people had to undergo after travelling from a country on the banned travel list (also known as the red list).  

If a person returned to the UK from a country that is on the amber list of countries, they had to self-isolate at home or in the place they were staying for 14 days.  

See “self-isolating” in this style guide for people who have:  

  • symptoms of COVID-19 
  • a positive COVID-19 test 
  • been in contact with someone who has tested positive 
  • travelled from a country not on the banned travel list but have to self-isolate