Originally Posted by
rasposat
Some of the officials say it's not a "quarantine" but an "isolation". What is the difference..
In the medical world, quarantine is a preventative measure segregating potentially contagious individuals from a healthy population, while isolation is the segregation of a confirmed infected person from everyone else. So, if we follow this logic, the UK arrival measure is a quarantine. But probably they don't call it this because "self-isolation" sounds more self-explanatory and easy to understand.