Coronavirus- should daughter isolate?

[Janus]

Daughter is in year 13 of college. She is friends with a boy whose sister tested positive yesterday. He got a test yesterday, waiting for results. They sat together in a group for lunch on Tuesday, you do not have to ‘check-in’ at college canteen. So track and trace would not put her as having to isolate. She also went out on Saturday with friends, they get the train to college with him. It seems to me that she should isolate until he gets his test results probably tomorrow or Wednesday, is that right?
Assuming he is then positive, the rest of the family (family of 6) do not have to isolate unless she shows symptoms, is that correct?
I know I should know this but it won’t come up under track or trace which is clearer.

Did he have symptoms? Or is he testing in the absence of symptoms? Did your dd have direct contact with the girl that tested positive?

Test and trace ask for details of close contact, they will not just rely on checking in details in cafes

Test and trace won't get involved until he has a positive test. She'd probably be identified as a close contact by the college then.

It would be socially responsible to isolate pending his test result imo. I assume he has symptoms?

And yes if she is isolating as a close contact the rest of your family don't need to. It would only be if she had symptoms that you'd need to.

(happy to be corrected, then I might know what to do if situation ever applies to us)

OP's DD isn't required to self-isolate, she hasn't (yet) been around a confirmed case or anyone with symptoms.

If her (male) mate tests positive, and she sat next to him for at least 15 minutes just before he tested positive, then she is required to self-isolate but the rest of her household not required to self-isolate unless she gets symptoms/tests positive.

if he is positive she should isolate. Everyone else carry on unless/until she develops symptoms.
Hopefully the friend is negative and isolating now.

If she last saw him Saturday then yes she should.

Thank you.
No she didn’t see him Saturday, she saw friends who catch the train with him.
Hasn’t seen the sister (positive one) herself.
He has no symptoms but getting a test because he is close to sister, they go to college together etc.
She sat with him on a table for lunch, ie around an oblong table together, not right next to him.
So he won’t get his results until at least tomorrow evening, my daughter should be at college tomorrow but I think it’s ‘sensible’ she stay at home tomorrow.
College won’t identify her as close contact as they are on different courses but just happen to meet up as a group of friends for lunch.
Thank you again.
Minefield!!!

He shouldn't be getting tested without symptoms. Even if he tests negative he needs to complete 14 days isolation.

Your dd doesn't need to isolate at all if she didn't have contact with the positive case

She Downey need to isolate at all

I guess we are thinking he will be positive seeing as they are at home together and both at the same college, travel in together etc. We were just thinking it would be ‘responsible’ to keep daughter at home incase he is positive. This is all secondhand from daughter so maybe he has felt unwell to get a test?

Why has he had a test?

To be honest I’m not sure, he just sent a group text saying his sister was positive and he was getting a test. This is just coming second hand from my daughter, I don’t know the family at all. It could well be he is feeling ill, I don’t think anyone asked!

Well if he hasn't got symptoms he's just wasted a test!! But no, your daughter doesn't need to isolate

He's wasted a test - even if negative he needs to isolate
Your dd doesn't need to isolate

dd1s friend enitire family had covid, she had symptoms, took a test negative. Her symptoms got worse she had another test, still negaitve.

If she ate lunch with him then at dd1s sixth form she would be classed as a close contact, they have to write down everyone they sit in the common room with for track and trace.

Its the sister that tested positive, not the brother (yet). OPs dd didn't have contact with the sister so doesn't need to isolate

Thank you, I think I agree, at the moment he is not positive. This might happen quite a lot too, sixth form college of nearly 2,000! Obviously if he does get a positive test she will isolate.
This is a sixth form college only (not a school) and no one has to say who they have lunch with, might bring this up with the college if he is positive as it may make sense that they do register this.
To be fair, I have no idea if he has symptoms, sorry I don’t have all the information, they may have even paid privately.

@Janus dds school didn't make it a rule until they had 8 or 9 cases. I think they were learning as they went. Much easier for them to ask whos on your list rather than asking someone whos probably not feeling their best who did you sit in the common room for 2 days before you had symptoms, when they could have waited 4 days just for the result. I couldn't remember who I had sat in the staffroom with nearly a week ago.