COVID test negative OH positive can I work?

[mrsgrinchh]

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I started with symptoms and had a test mine was negative OH has no symptoms and his have came back positive. I had another test done yesterday evening so no results yet. Am I ok to go to work I start at 5?

It does go to show that the rules are stupid though- if OPs husband had just self isolated when she got her test- they’d have both been free to leave isolation when her negative result returned. He is positive but didn’t meet the criteria for testing- yet he would then be driving all over while Covid positive.
There needs to be more testing to pick up the asymptotic carriers tbh.

Not sure why he got tested in the 1st place, it categorically states that you only get a test of you have symptoms and if you don't have symptoms the reasons are very specific as to why you're then eligible for a test. It's all on the gov website. Obviously now he is positive you'll be in for the 14 days from date of his test and he'll be 10 days.

@Isadora2007

It does go to show that the rules are stupid though- if OPs husband had just self isolated when she got her test- they’d have both been free to leave isolation when her negative result returned. He is positive but didn’t meet the criteria for testing- yet he would then be driving all over while Covid positive. There needs to be more testing to pick up the asymptotic carriers tbh.

How would that work in practice at this point though? Tell people they have to have a test if they live with someone who tests negative? Maybe just require people to book a test every week?

I know the Chinese have apparently been testing the entire population of a city where there is an outbreak, but our testing system has been creaking at the seams just trying to test people with symptoms. It's hardly going to cope with testing the entire population....

That's the criteria for testing if you've said no to symptoms but yes to being an essential worker.
If you select none of the above you get told you can't have a coronavirus test.

I have just finished my 14 day isolation because my wife tested positive, i havent had any symptoms at all, but i got tested bacuse my work insisted on it and it came back negative

Agree there is no need to be rude to the OP. For many people, having to self isolate for 14 days will be financially devastating for them and many will be under pressure from employers to get back ASAP, it's understandable why people ask the question.
I don't think it's as obvious to everybody as some people seem to think it is, especially when there was an MP who took herself off to London after a test when she was supposed to be isolating, look how that turned out!
Anyhow OP yes you need to isolate for 14 days until the incubation period is up and 🤞 you don't develop symptoms.