What does a positive test email look like?

[Ozgirl75]

One of our employees has said that they have tested positive for covid. They have sent a screenshot of their result but it doesn’t have their name or anything on it apart from saying “your test is positive, please isolate for 7 days”
We suspect he may be making it up.
If anyone has had a positive test, what does the positive email look like? Does it have your name somewhere on it?

It has your name, your date of birth, and the date of your test. It then says:

Your coronavirus test result is positive. It means you had the virus when the test was done.

Try not to worry. You can often ease symptoms at home until you recover.

You may be contacted for contact tracing.

You must, by law, self-isolate for 10 days from your symptoms starting. If you’ve not had symptoms, self-isolate for 10 days from your test.
You may return to work on day 11 if you’ve not had a high temperature for 48 hours and are well. Talk to your employer first.
People you live with should self-isolate for 14 days from your symptoms starting or 10 days from their symptoms starting.

For a care home resident, follow relevant guidelines.
For a child or staff at school or nursery, tell the school/nursery.
For medical help, contact 111. In an emergency dial 999.
More advice: www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Help the NHS with coronavirus research.
Sign up to take part in coronavirus studies on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) website: bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk/campaigns/Positive-test-result/

They don't always have name on, a parent and daughter I know had results to the same email that had no name on, one was positive one was negative so they didn't know which was which at first

While it may be suspicious, I'd tread very softly if I were you.

If it is legitimate and they have tested positive and you pressure them into work? Even if they don't spread it, they could probably drag you to a Tribunal at the very least

Thanks - we’re not pressuring them at all - it’s more that we are about to send all our other staff home in a pre emptive isolation but only want to do this if it’s definitely positive.

There's a reference number on too. Each test has a specific number.

Your name is registered to a number.
More than one person tested in a household results should not be a problem as each test has a serial number

That’s what we assumed too. The thing he sent is nothing like this, no identifying part at all.

Mine said

Dear blah blah
Birth date - blah blah
Test date: blah blah

Your coronavirus test was blah blah.

Isolate for 7 days is suspicious, it changed to 10 days ages ago.

My email this week was exactly as posted above. I also got the same on text messages. I got a separate email with a code to put into the NHS app too.

One email had no reference number in just the above and the other email had a code to enter in to the app.

Ask them to forward the email to you instead of a screenshot?

It definitely has full name at start of email plus date of birth so there is no confusion as to who the email is for, if they have clipped this bit it is a little suspicious!

Have they just missed out the part with their details on a screenshot?