If you have already tested positive and completed your isolation...

[janinlondon]

Looking for anyone who KNOWS the answer please? (I can speculate but we are looking for the actual regulation here ). If someone has already tested positive for covid-19 and completed isolation time, and they are then notified that a contact has covid and that they must isolate....do they have to? TIA

Yes.

Thank you! I have now found the UK Gov guidance - yes you do, repeatedly, forever......

There isn't sufficient evidence gathered yet for whether or not recovering from an infection with covid actually protects you from reinfection or from carrying and infecting others. Until that evidence has been gathered, analysed and peer reviewed (a couple of years at least) we have to be on the safe side and assume the answer is that reinfection is possible.

@KihoBebiluPute

There isn't sufficient evidence gathered yet for whether or not recovering from an infection with covid actually protects you from reinfection or from carrying and infecting others. Until that evidence has been gathered, analysed and peer reviewed (a couple of years at least) we have to be on the safe side and assume the answer is that reinfection is possible.

Reinfection is definitely possible - there are six cases where it has been proven. The only questions are what proportion of us will be reinfected and how frequently.

I'm a bit sceptical about the research on this - the Goldman paper from Seattle hadn't even been peer reviewed when they "prepublished"....the lawyer in Georgia has no medical proof of his story.... and I don't think the cases in Goa and Mumbai have been investigated and reported in a medical journal....