Initially it was said that Boris Johnson would not go into self-isolation, although he was in contact with his health minister who was sick with Covid-19.
Now the U-turn.
London - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to go into self-isolation after contact with his Health Minister Sajid Javid, who is ill with Covid-19.
The government seat announced Downing Street - only hours after a spokesman announced the opposite.
At first it was said that Johnson and his Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak would take part in a pilot project and therefore take daily tests instead of self-isolation.
The decision had sparked an outcry over hundreds of thousands of Britons currently sitting at home after being asked to quarantine for 10 days by the National Health Service (NHS) for contact with an infected person.
For Johnson, who, according to the government, is currently at his Checkers estate, the incident comes at an inopportune time.
Almost all corona measures in England are to be lifted on Monday.
Although the number of infections is currently increasing dramatically.
The government justifies this with the high vaccination rate.
88 percent of adults in the UK have now had a first vaccination. Almost 68 percent have already been vaccinated twice. The connection between new infections and hospital admissions as well as deaths has been weakened considerably, so the argumentation. The number of new infections within a week per 100,000 inhabitants was last given as 360. dpa