Australian Covid isolation period cut to five days for people without symptoms

‘If you have symptoms, we [still] want people to stay home,’ Anthony Albanese said when announcing Covid isolation was being cut to five days. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

National cabinet has agreed to cut the Covid isolation period from seven to five days for people without symptoms.

But the seven-day mandatory isolation will remain in place for workers in high-risk settings such as aged care and people who are still sick.