To warn colleagues a member of my household has COVID, or not?

[covidisoverornot]

Somehow in the whole 2 years of the pandemic I've avoided this situation up until now, and I'm not sure what the done thing is given that restrictions are pretty much ended in England.

I'm going into the office this week, but I WFH most of the time (so it's not necessary to go to the office). I'm also going out for leaving drinks for a colleague.

A member of my household has COVID and I have been around them a lot. I feel like I'm coming down with something (slight light headedness but that's all), but all of my lateral flows are negative.

Do I warn my colleagues?

(If it was any other week I would just WFH but I need to go into the office)

My work policy is to go to work even if you HAVE COVID and still feel well. Just wear a mask. This is since the latest rule change. I cannot comprehend the poor decision making of our managers.

Jesus Christ. The amount of 'you don't need to tell anyone' and then 'you'd have to lie to get a PCR' like lying for a PCR is the worst thing that one could do? Or would keeping quiet and potentially infecting your entire office be the worst thing? I'd bloody tell them. If they insist you go in tell your colleagues..its the absolute least you can do.

We need testing to keep track of variants. It shouldn't be "phased out".

I did an LFT for very mild symptoms last week (slightly sore throat). Negative.

Then, because I got an email from the school to say that a classmate of my child's had tested positive, and I was in the office the following day, went for a PCR. Luckily I was able to work in a side office at work until I got the results- as it turned out, it was positive.

This was me two weeks ago!

DS tested positive on a Sunday night and I was due to go to a meeting on the Wednesday. I was honest with my manager who said stay home.

Wednesday came I felt rough, LFT was negative. Again Thursday and then Friday I got a very strong positive.

I'm guessing you can have Covid and feel ill but not be infectious enough to show on the test? No idea really but it took me 3 days of being grim before it showing.

If you were my colleague I would want to know as I'm cev, currently suffering from a flare up of my autoimmune disease as well as being pregnant. I wouldn't try to stop you going in if that's the general consensus but I'd certainly make sure I stay away from you and any of your contacts myself.

Could you go to the office but not go for the dinner/drinks?

[quote KylieKoKo]@lemonnandliime what a waste of tests!

Op I wouldn't go in in your circumstances BUT I'm in the privileged position of having an employer who supports us in working from home and erring on the side of caution. I understand that not everyone has this luxury.[/quote]
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realise there were LFT police.

I would want to know so I could keep myself safe.

I caught it from someone who thought they just had a cold. My first test was negative (taken when I felt it coming on), and it took a few days before a test was positive.

My neighbour has it and is testing positive, her partner also has it but tests are negative.