Can you still see bubble if one of you tested positive?

[OneMoreWish]

Hello,

I've tried reading government advice but can't seem to find answer.

I am a single mum with two young children (2ys and 1yrs) . I have been a bubble with my parents since bubbles started and they also do some childcare since I've gone back to work.

My mum tested positive today after a music leader contacted us to say she had tested positive. My mum and one year old had been at the music class. Me and my dad are negative ( we both have coughs mum doesn't but had headache and her tea had tasted funny)

So I am just wondering as guidance says bubble is treated as one household can I still go to my mum and dads house.

I struggle on my own and my parents have a large garden my children can play outside with me and my dad.
My mum also classed as vulnerable and I help her with personal things like washing etc as she prefers this to then dad.

So I can't find out if ok I still go there and keep children in separate room / garden and I kee distance with mum and ppe when I need to help her.

I should add since Friday ( when we think she caught it at music class as she has been nowhere else) I and my children have been with her everyday. We don't know whether my daughter has it but as we have to isolate for 14 days I didn't think I would put her through test ( ( she is also snotty and completely bunged up so not sure I could do it or get viable test)

Anyone in similar position or seen advice I might have missed?

Thank you

No. You should not be leaving your home unless for emergencies such as you or your household needing emergency medical care.

Officially: no, isolation means not leaving your home.
Unofficially: you do what you got to do.

You are one bubble so need to be isolating as someone in the bubble is positive, which means you can't leave your house. How would you travel to your Mum and Dads house?

Do you have a car? If I was you I would drive there and isolate there, esoecially if your mum might need your help.

Isolate together

I would isolate there if you can, if you need to provide care and no one else can do it. I suppose ideally you should isolate at home but nothing is ideal about this situation. Are any of you vulnerable to covid?

If you can stay there and isolate there in one house together then yes, although you would need to travel by private car. If not then no, you need to stay in your house.

Agree with others I’d isolate with them

Even if you lived with them, you should be isolating from each other as much as possible (obviously not at all possible for you to isolate from the kids though). So if you were to stay with them, they shouldn't be helping with childcare. The guidance for those self isolating says:

Avoid contact with other members of your household as much as possible
If you have symptoms of COVID-19, it is important to reduce the spread of infection to others in your household as much as possible.

You should stay in a well-ventilated room with a window to the outside that can be opened, separate from other people in your home if this is possible. Keep the door closed.

Use a separate bathroom from the rest of the household, if available. If you have to share these facilities, regular cleaning will be required. If a separate bathroom is not available, consider drawing up a bathroom rota for washing or bathing. You should use the facilities last, before thoroughly cleaning the bathroom. You should use separate towels from other household members, both for drying yourself after bathing or showering and for hand hygiene purposes.

You should avoid using shared spaces such as kitchens whilst others are present. Take your meals back to your room to eat. Use a dishwasher (if available) to clean and dry your used crockery and cutlery. If this is not possible, wash them by hand using detergent and warm water and dry them thoroughly, using a separate tea towel.

You need to isolate. Ideally at home with your DC to reduce the chances of you catching it. It'll be a lot harder if all adults go down with it. You're struggling at home with your DC and it'll be so much harder if you get it. Also, the risk of passing it to your DC.

Thanks for all the replies and so quickly.

Work have been very understanding about if I can't work. I may isolate there in their house so I can help mum and dad and I can look after children. Obviously we will keep distance from mum and follow other advice re isolate one person in a household

No. My husband and I are in a bubble with our daughter and her two children.

There is no way that I would or my husband would see them if one of us tested positive. Hopefully it will be two weeks of isolation and then we could go back to seeing them again. It's not the end of the world and we could go back to skype calls in the meantime.