How far has social isolating got to go?

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Just over a week ago DS came into direct contact with someone who is now in the last few days showing signs of covid-19. I won’t go into great details here to not give away my identity if j have family on here.

The person didn’t have any idea obviously nor did we.

So far it’s been around 8 days since DS saw them and he’s absolutely fine.

Before anyone blasts me we are social social distancing. Whilst off school we will be enjoying time at home, the garden and going for walks. Luckily we live in a very quiet area...

Now it comes to my partner. Does he have to self isolate even though he hasn’t come into direct contact with the person in himself. Obviously DS has but isn’t showing any signs.

Also do I have to let the school know? I sent DS in as normal Monday through to Thursday blissfully unaware of the fact my son came into contact with someone that was most likely incubating it.

Also, I assume if DS or any of the rest of don’t catch after day 14 it’s unlikely we’ve caught it off them but obviously we will carry on social distancing in our home.

I thought everyone in the family home had to self isolate for 14 days?

Give me strength.

Everyone in your home needs to self-isolate for 14 days from the point that your son left school and stopped mixing with other people.

If after 14 days your son has shown no symptoms that doesn’t mean he hasn’t had it because kids often don’t show symptoms so you and your DH could still be in the danger zone. This is why we need testing.

We have only become aware today that this person DS has had contact with has symptoms so cannot be blamed for my sons contact for the last week when we were unaware.

So it’s already been 8-9 days since DS had contact with this person. My partner has been at work all week. I assume that by next week if DS has no symptoms he hasn’t caught it off this person.

We are social distancing anyway and will carry on doing so. We haven’t had any contact with anyone since school on Friday.

But it’s my partner.. my question is does he have to isolate when he hasn’t had direct contact with this person but contact with our son who has no symptoms?

The person who has symptoms has been refused a test but told they probably have it.

Yes your partner is supposed to self isolate for 14 days as that's how long it can take for symptoms to appear as your ds being around someone who has it.

Everyone in your home needs to self-isolate for 14 days from the point that your son left school and stopped mixing with other people.

Why? Is this true for all families with children at school? If not I don't see why it applies here if OP's son came into contact with this person over a week ago, and it wasn't someone they were seeing at school? Unless I've misunderstood something somewhere?

Sorry should have added the contact was not at the school!

It was a relative of his.

So the other child has unconfirmed covid symptoms 8 days after contact and your DS has no symptoms? The self isolating for 14 days is if a member of the household has symptoms. As DS is currently asymptomatic you do not need to isolate as a household (obviously this will change if he does start presenting with symptoms). But EVERYBODY needs to be practising social distancing so avoiding unnecessary social contact.