Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

A covid one sorry! Should we isolate? Help!

5 replies

Covidconfusion89 · 21/12/2020 21:48

I have also posted this in coronavirus but there is so much action my thread has vanished out of site!

We had a message from nursery saying someone who was in contact with the children for less than 5 minutes has tested positive for covid. The message just says they were visiting and the whole visit was less than 5 mins. There was no physical contact but there could have been close contact.

Nursery called public health who said all of the children needed to isolate for 10 days.

They then spoke to someone different at public health who said the children did NOT need to isolate because the contact wasn't face to face for 15 minutes.

Nursery are being cautious and have closed nursery and told everyone to isolate. This obviously has a big impact on the one day we allowed to see family at Christmas!

I thought that if someone tested positive, track and trace would contact nursery/school/friends etc but ive been told in my other thread this doesnt happen.

Nursery have given us very little information and dont seem to know anything about what children specifically had the contact or what the contact was. I dont even know if it was an adult or child but ive been assuming adult. Just that it was less than 5 mintues.

How can public health say yes isolate then no dont? Do we need to isolate because of 5 mins contact? Not even 5 minutes with one child, for the whole visit.

Im so confused, I want to do the right thing but it doesn't sound like to me that we need to isolate. And i obviously dont want to put family at risk.

OP posts:
NoKnit · 21/12/2020 22:11

Is it possible to get your child tested?

WTF are the nursery doing having visitors. At ours nobody is allowed in apart from kids and staff, no parents, no exceptions. I don't actually believe this has happened to you I'm very sorry

OllietheOwl · 21/12/2020 22:14

DD’s nursery recently had a case. They wouldn’t say who, only that it was a member of staff. They didn’t ask DD to isolate, only if DD developed symptoms. If so, only the child needs to isolate, not the entire family (unless they develop symptoms).

HotPenguin · 21/12/2020 22:16

If it's a 5 minute visit I would guess it was a food delivery or someone fixing something. I think you have to take it seriously I'm afraid as your child could be carrying it even if not showing symptoms.

geekone · 21/12/2020 22:19

We went through isolation recently because of school. For us the Scottish health board get in touch in an official letter through the school with dates of isolation. If you don’t have an official letter you shouldn’t need to isolate. So it depends if what the nursery sent you was an official letter with the guidance on it and dates for isolation. If they did then yes you need too n

partyatthepalace · 21/12/2020 23:38

Can you get the nursery to explain what type of visit it was? If it was a guy fixing the boiler tradesman type visit, then surely they cannot have been within 2 metres of your child for more than 15 mins, in which case you don’t need to isolate them. If it was say a nit nurse (or whatever they call them these days!) examining each kid closely, then you probably do.

Sounds to me like the nursery is covering itself by sending the kids home, which is fair enough - but is being totally unreasonable by not giving you enough info to make an informed decision on isolation. This is backed up by they fact they have confused the public health advisers too.

So I’d call with scenario examples and ask them to describe the kind of visit.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread