Claim: 20,000 people a day who are sick with Covid-19 are not isolating.
Fact-check: Evidence doesn't show 20,000 people 'sick with Covid' fail to self-isolate every day - Full Fact
Verdict: this is a misunderstanding of figures which roughly estimated that 20,000 people a day who are asked to isolate by nhs test and trace  do not do so fully.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross
Date published: 2021-02-09T00:00:00