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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Self-isolation

People typically had to self-isolate if any of the following reasons applied:  

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

Use “self-isolation” (noun).  

Use “self-isolate” or “self-isolating” (verb).  

Include the link to the GOV.UK guidance pages for the first mention in each section.  

Do not use “quarantine”, “in quarantine” or “quarantining” unless referring to quarantine after travelling from a country on the banned travel list. See quarantine.