After a positive test how many days to get negative result?

[Keratinsmooth]

Has anyone encountered this? Got test due to travel (work) Result - positive, have retested, got an inconclusive/retest required. I’m going to need to keep retesting but have no idea how many days to allow between tests?

I felt a bit under the weather two weeks ago, no cough, no temperature (In fact was freezing cold not hot), was super tired and vomited. So I didn’t think to test, only in hindsight do I think that might have been related.

[dementedpixie]

Are you not supposed to isolate for 10 days from the test date if you didn't have symptoms?

[covetingthepreciousthings]

Why are you going to keep retesting when you've already had a positive? You isolate for 10 days, household isolate for 14. You don't need to keep testing till it's negative?

[eurochick]

She says in the OP she was tested as she needed to travel for work. That is presumably why she needs a negative test.

[dementedpixie]

Or maybe she should just follow the rules and isolate for 10 days from her test result

[Luckypoppy]

My friend is now 9 weeks in and still testing positive!

[dementedpixie]

Positive test result

A positive result means you had coronavirus when the test was done.

If your test result is positive, you must self-isolate immediately.

If you had a test because you had symptoms, self-isolate for at least 10 days from when your symptoms started.

If you had a test but have not had symptoms, self-isolate for 10 days from when you had the test

[Lessofallthisunpleasantness]

You can keep testing positive for ages but doesn't mean you are contagious. I would let work guide you but at my friends work where they need to travel they are tested every 5 days.