To think preschool should have closed if there was a covid case

[Skittles98]

My DC's nursery sent an email yesterday saying that a child in preschool tested positive for covid on Tuesday.

However, according to the rules preschool can stay open and no one has to self isolate because the child's symptoms started on Saturday.

Is it me or are the rules crszy?

Or am I wrong to think you can still spread covid prior to developing symptoms?

A few staff at the nursery have autoimmune diseases and I can only imagine how worried they must be, having to continue going in to work 😞

The rules are crazy. That’s just one of many.

The track and trace rules are that anyone in contact 48 hours or less before symptoms start need to isolate.

So if the child hadn’t been in preschool on those days, no need to isolate anybody.

I think they may have misunderstood. Anyone they've been in contact with in the 48 hours before symptoms started should be isolating.

We've had staff at school develop symptoms on a Sunday and had to tell their classes to isolate because they were in school on the Friday.

Was the kid in pre school the thurs or Friday before he got symptoms on the sat?

They will have discussed it with public health england and gone through what they need to do. When the child was in and who had contact.
Maybe the child wasnt in preschool on the friday

Or Thursday

They didn't say when the child was last in preschool. They wouldn't break any rules though, so I assume it must have been 2 days before symptoms started.

Can you not spread it when you're asymptomatic though? He apparently only has a very mild cough and nothing else.

Hope the rules are right and no one else gets it!