Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, said people with Covid should be allowed to "go about their normal lives", after experts said omicron manifested itself as a mild cold in many cases.
Asked on BBC Breakfast about NHS staff shortages due to workers having to isolate, he said: "This is a disease that's not going away, the infection is not going away, although we're not going to see as severe disease for much longer.
"Ultimately, we're going to have to let people who are positive with Covid go about their normal lives as they would do with any other cold. And so, at some point, we've got to relax this.
"If the self-isolation rules are what's making the pain associated with Covid, then we need to do that perhaps sooner rather than later.”
He suggested that “once we're past Easter, perhaps, then maybe we should start to look at scaling back, depending on, of course, what the disease is at that time”.
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