What would you do in this situation.

[Noidea2114]

This morning DD phones to say she has been for a covid test.
The lady she worked with last Sunday tested positive on Wednesday went for a test Monday.
DD started to feel ill on Friday but just thought It was a cold until this morning when
she couldn't smell or taste anything after advice from 111 she got a test.
Now to my problem I was with DD on Tuesday should I isolate until DD gets the results she was told 72hours.
I don't work but I do visit an elderly relative.

Yes

Yes you need to isolate. It needs to be until your DD gets a negative, or if she’s positive, for 14 days from when you last saw her.

Yes, why take a chance?

You don't HAVE to but if you can I think it would be the sensible/responsible thing to do. I certainly wouldn't be visiting anyone elderly.

If your DD has lost her sense of smell and taste and has been in contact with a case its more than likely than not that she has got it. Hope she is OK and if you get it it is mild. I've had it and it wasn't great but manageable.

Yes, please self isolate and don’t visit the elderly relative. Asymptomatic spread is a real problem with this disease and your daughter’s symptoms after contact with a positive case sound convincing.

So woman saw your DD on Sunday, may have passed it on, then you saw her on Tuesday.
The chances of her having passed it to you are slim but possible. I’d definitely not see your relative I think.

I think you are meant to isolate, thinking about it though.

Yes. Draft in help for the elderly relative in the meantime.

If DD didn't have symptoms til Friday then she would only have been infectious from Wed?

Yes. You don't officially need to isolate until DD gets a result, but I certainly wouldn't go near elderly relative until you have heard.

It is for people she was in close contact with 48 hours before her 1st symptoms. Do you fall into that window?

I would isolate & go absolutely nowhere near an older relative.

It's unlikely she's passed it on to you, but better to err on the side of caution.

If she's positive you have to isolate for 14 days from seeing her. If she's negative I would personally still isolate if we'd had close contact.

If DD's results are negative, she needs to isolate for 14 days from seeing her colleague, because it's an incubation period of 14 days and a negative test doesn't change that.

If she's positive she needs to isolate for 10 days from today (her positive test day) and until she no longer has a temperature (the cough & sense of smell can take longer to come right & she doesn't need to continue to isolate) but personally I'd stay home for as long as possible.

@CovidClara

It is for people she was in close contact with 48 hours before her 1st symptoms. Do you fall into that window?

I wouldn't personally risk it in exactly 48 hours. She may have had symptoms she didn't bite on thursday, such as a headache etc. If you've been in close contact with someone who has been in close contact with a positive case, it's just sensible to isolate and not go seeing elderly relatives IMO.

When you say you were with her what exactly does that mean, what did you do? A walk outside where you kept 2m away from each other wouldn't class as close contact would it whereas 2 hours sitting next to each other on the sofa is a very different thing.

Bite? I hope she didn't!! 'Note'

I am not sure whether Test and Trace would officially count you as your DD'S contact, as I think they look back at the 48 hours before the positive person developed symptoms. However, there is no way I would go near an elderly relative in your circumstances, as so much is still unknown about the virus and you appear to be only just outside the 48 hour window.

Test and Trace (if she’s positive) probably wouldn’t be interested as you saw her just outside the 48 hours before symptoms. 48 hours isn’t definitive, just catches the bulk of transmission and it is perfectly possible to be contagious earlier. You don’t have to isolate, but in tour situation I would be cautious.