How does UK quarantine work for visits specifically to see family?

9/15/2020 10:21:24 AM

The UK government has a very extensive web page explaining how to self-isolate when arriving in the UK from abroad. With some caveats, your plan is doable, but perhaps not recommendable.

First of all, you are allowed to self-isolate staying with friends or family and as you already pointed out, you are allowed to leave the isolation for the purpose of travelling out of the UK. You should however also consider the following:

  • You are requested to stay away from others, also from other people at the location you are self-isolating. It is recommended that you stay in a separate room. This will likely prevent the kind of visit you were expecting.
  • It is unfortunately unclear if you are allowed to stay outside in your own garden. The page mentions that you are allowed to exercise in your own garden, but not that any arbitrary stay in the garden is allowed.
  • You will have to stay at one place. It is only with very few exceptions allowed to change the place you are isolating, so you would not be allowed to visit more relatives or friends at their respective places.
  • You (and in this case also your parents) are not allowed to have visitors while you are isolating.
  • If you develop symptoms while staying there, the entire house-hold will be required to self-isolate and it seems as if you are required to stay in isolation and are not allowed to leave the UK until the isolation period ends.

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