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New guidance on shielding amid coronavirus (COVID-19) issued

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Published on: 27 November 2020

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LNB News 27/11/2020

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Issue Date: 27 November 2020

Published Date: 27 November 2020

Jurisdiction(s): England

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The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), in collaboration with Public Health England, has issued new coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance, effective from 2 December 2020, on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable. This new guidance is being issued to replace previous guidance on shielding that was in place during the four-week period of national restrictions (5 November–2 December 2020). The DHSC explained: ‘On 2 December the country is moving back to a tiered system of local restrictions. We have reinstated this guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people linked to these tiers’.

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