I Just tested positive for covid - can i fly to Spain for a work event on Sunday ?

[Munichfam5]

Can’t remember what the covid rules are now so any advice appreciated TIA

Legally you could fly if fully vaccinated (including booster)

If you know you are positive then you shouldn't be going on a plane as its an enclosed space with lots of people mostly not wearing masks

It's work,just ring in sick ffs

Fucking obviously not

I wouldn't. But the truth is at this point, every aeroplane we get on will have a handful of people who have COVID, whether they have tested or not.

Thats to get a recovery certificate. OP doesn't actually need that if she has proof of vaccination

It's a moral issue rather than a legal issue

Ah Okay - thanks for all your posts - i will not be going on the work event

@phishy thank you for posting the UK COVID guidance that really helpful

Not everyone with covid has a fever

This is true.

Of course you can fly...and infect everyone on the plane and in the Spanish office in the process as well 😠

Yes, adults are advised to stay away from crowded places for 5 days. For children it's 3 days. Best not to go tbh

You may be negative by then.....

Technically you can, but you know you shouldn't.

Tell your work, they probably don’t want you bringing down everyone. The 5 days thing Is bollocks, if you’re still testing positive U.K. to 10 days you’re still infectious.
but legally you can do what you want. Air on a plane is circulating so someone at the front infects the whole plane or queue at check in. Same as if you had flu or chicken pox etc

Air is circulated but due to the way it's done the risk of transmission is LOW

Look up the facts before spreading disinformation

You might sit next to someone with covid but you're very unlikely to catch it via the air from someone in a totally different part of the plane

This

How do you know where you caught it?

You are 100% wrong.
Yes air on a plane is well circulated and filtered BUT the filters don’t work UNTIL the plane taxis. Thus there is a long time before and after flights that spread airborne pathogens. You can check this by using a CO2 monitor yourself if you like. It builds up so much it takes a long flight time to remedy the air situation.

I believe you can legally, yes. I travelled to Spain recently and not only was there no ‘temperature sensors’, no one wore masks and there was no mention of it anywhere.

Whether you should is a different question.

If double jabbed and had a booster then yes, you can because you don’t need to provide a negative test. I know it isn’t the ‘moral’ thing to do but most people wouldn’t bother testing prior to flying so I doubt you’ll be the only infected one on the plane.

You could have looked it up yourself in the time taken to post here, tbh 🤔

It's a plane - close quarters, lots of people, circulating air!

If you tested positive today then this is day zero. Day 5 will be next Monday and you should only be mixing then if you are testing negative.

We are ALL expected to follow guidelines. The argument that you can go out mixing with people because you won't be challenged or checked on is what's going to have the NHS on its knees again this winter.

Can people really not figure it out for themselves to not get on a plane and infect others? smdh

Must be someone like the OP who infected my partner and me when we came back from holiday a few weeks ago. We both tested positive and were poorly a few days after we got back.

Fortunately, we weren't seriously ill (though my partner dropped 8lbs in less than a week and as she's tiny, that was quite worrying) but if we'd been vulnerable or in close contact with someone vulnerable, it could have been very serious. As soon as we knew we were infected, we quarantined ourselves until we tested negative.

Infected people really shouldn't put themselves in confined spaces with aload of others for hours at a time.

I'm clinically extremely vulnerable ( on immunosuppressants) and fully vaccinated with 6 jabs....came back from first trip out of U.K. in 3 years last weekend and tested positive on Friday ( had worn mask while travelling)

I feel dreadful....temp, hacking cough , ache all over but don't apparently qualify for antivirals, so just resting, keeping warm and taking regular paracetamol
If you know you're positive you're just to just spread it even more