How long do you actually need to isolate for before seeing people to be ‘safe’

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Just that really. I thought it’s 14 day’s but a family member is arguing it’s proposed to be reduced to 7, and that it would be fine.

Trying to see if we can make it work to see a vulnerable person at Christmas, not 100% sure how many they have left. But at the same time I don’t want it to be us who passes this virus on to them, when there could still be many more if we are lucky.

It’s proposed to be reduced to 7 days plus tests, not just 7 days. You won’t be ‘safe’ at 7 days, if it’s to see a vulnerable person you should do 14 days.

14 days to be safe. The rules may be reduced to 7 days but that's just because no one follows the 14 day rule and they may follow a short erperiod instead. That's what they have done in France for a while.

Average incubation is 5 days.Range is 2-14. So assuming a normal distribution with a mean of 5 approxiamately 2/3 of cases will show themselves by 7 days.

Ok thank you that helps. I’m sure I’d read about people not showing symptoms until 13 days at times which is why I wasn’t sure. And we have young school aged children who could be asymptomatic anyway :/. So I’ll keep arguing back to the 14 day’s and see if we can make it work. Some school may have to be missed but I’ll take the hit in order to be able to see them.

Fourteen days but I’d likely do a little longer if multiple household members in case one was carrying it with no symptoms if I wanted to ensure safety.