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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telemachus" data-source="post: 2321626" data-attributes="member: 81578">Another day, another rule change but this is a genuine improvement. The promised <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1382/made" target="_blank">amendment to the SI</a> came into force on 9 Dec though the Gov.UK guidance hasn't yet caught up. So there is now no discrimination against foreign vaccination in the treatment of close contacts for isolation. They have removed the anomaly (which had been there since 16 Aug) by specifying that vaccinations under the UK overseas programme are acceptable, and by aligning the definition of 'authorised vaccine' with the long list of recognised countries and proof of vaccination documents previously enacted for arrivals from overseas.This removes some but not all of the risk of 10 days' mandatory isolation if one were to be identified as a close contact.  We are now in the same boat as UK-vaccinated people, which though good news in principle means the 10 days of isolation will still apply (for the time being) to close contacts of an Omicron case.Cold comfort to this thread's OP and to others caught up in the unjustified categorisation of all foreign-immunised people - in the context of isolation of close contacts - as though they were unvaccinated.</blockquote>