Terminally ill people with less than six months to live do not have to self-isolate if they don't want to, the NHS has said.
They have been told to spend their final days and weeks with their loved ones instead of locking themselves away. In new guidance from the NHS, it states: "We also suggest that anybody with a terminal diagnosis who is thought to be in their last 6 months of life should be excluded from this group (unless they wish to be included), to allow them to maintain contact with their loved ones during the last phase of their illness." It comes as 1.4 million high-risk vulnerable people have been advised that they should not leave the house for the next three months due to the risk of contracting coronavirus.