Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
The Health Protection Regulations 2020 is a law of the United Kingdom that came into place on 10 February 2020 as a statutory instrument made under the Public Health Act 1984, applying only to England. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, introduced the law upon announcing that the incidence and transmission of COVID-19 caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the COVID-19 pandemic was of sufficient threat to public health to put in place measures to delay further spread by introducing powers to keep individuals in isolation where public health professionals believed there was reasonable risk.Locations
in Merseyside and the Kents Hill Park training and conference centre in Milton Keynes became designated "isolation facilities", with the Hubei province of China declared as an "infected area".
