Originally Posted by
orbitmic
So no idea. The only safe thing for those who can is wait for publication of the legal documentation and we can then all confirm what it means for those borderline cases. For others, it will have to be an anxious wait, though if the current basic principle doesn't change, if you have only visited soon-to-be-confirmed-as-exempt countries in the last two wees, one option (at a cost) might be to leave the UK again (for the same or another exempt country) and reenter as leaving the country ends your previous self-isolation obligation.
So despite a minister stating that those arriving from exempt countries prior to the 10th would end quarantine on that date, and this being widely reported in the media, we now find ourselves in the frustrating position of the statutory instrument specifically ruling this out! Annoyed is not the word...
So it's time to think of options. Does leaving the UK to another exempt country definitely 100% reset the clock, provided we return on Friday or later? I filled in the locater form online on the basis I wouldn't be travelling anywhere else within the next two weeks. Will going away and filling in a new form for a Friday or later return cause any issues given what I declared on yesterday's form? And is it 100% allowed for me to leave the house and travel to an airport for the purpose of making this trip, even say a week after starting quarantine, as this clearly wouldn't be a transit?
What's also annoying is I haven't seen this covered anywhere in the news today. Had I not spotted the link to the statutory instrument in this thread, I'd have been none the wiser and assumed quarantine would end of Friday as per last week's statement.