How many times has your family isolated

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A lady on another thread said they have been isolating on and off since September, as childrens bubble at school kept having cases. I wonder is this normal? My family and I haven’t had to isolate at all yet, which I know could happen at any time. How many times have you had to self isolate since September and what area are you in?

One. Cardiff. My DS had a positive case in his class so he had to self isolate for 14 days. As I'm a single mum, I had no choice but to self isolate too.

Three times. Once for contact with a positive case and twice due to symptoms but ended with negative result.

Sorry. In SE!

Twice for me, dh and 18y DD (who is now at university)

• Once in early March (week before lockdown) as DD had a cough.

• Once in October as I had Covid so we all had to isolate - dd got stuck here after visiting for a weekend to see a friend!

Fortunately I haven't been affected by any other school closures as I was off for several weeks and they all happened whilst I was off sick.

None- Cornwall

DH runs own business so pretty much at home or on site visits, outside.

DS at nursery

DD hasn’t started nursery yet

Tier 3 city. None

Once. Oxfordshire.
50% of Oxfordshire primary schools have had at least one case...

We all isolated at Easter as I had symptoms.

Ds 13 had to isolate for two weeks at half term due to his bubble having a positive case. Thats it. Not bad for having two school age children. DH works from home, I work in school but back office so don't have contact with many people.

We live in a tier 3 area, just moved from tier 2. Our hospital is at capacity and has issued a major incident alert (or whatever they are calling it) as they are close to being overwhelmed. So rates in the area are Sky high.
3 dc, across 3 different schools, (2 secondary bubbles and one primary), Dh works and I’m a childminder with 10 children on my books. So we are very much seeing a lot of people because of work and school. Somehow, we have managed to not need to isolate at all so far. (Apart from one day, waiting for test results, which were negative, so I don’t think that counts towards what is being asked?)

None, 1 DC in school that's only had 1 case. London here

DD’s class teacher got covid so they were home for two weeks.
We’ve had to isolate once for me and once for ds as we got tested due to symptoms.
The school has had 3 members of staff with it and a few children.

Not at all and I have DTs in Y3 and DH is a teacher. Both have had cases at school but nothing that's required self isolation.

Once for 2 days waiting for test results. I'm a secondary teacher and although there are loads of students off at the minute I haven't been considered a close contact. My primary aged DC haven't had to isolate either.

Some students at my school are on their 3rd round of isolation.

Twice. Once back in March & the boyfriends off work isolating at the moment.

Thrice.

Twice because of one child having a cough. Once for the other.

1x 2 weeks in September as told to by test and trace.

Second isolation is ongoing now as youngest child has cough. Tested today though so fingers crossed not for long. Midlands area.

Twice this month
Work in a school do had one isolation
Went back one day and there was another case
Thoroughly chuffed off now!

Once, when I caught covid from a colleague.

DH is a teacher, I work admin in a school, and we have two kids in different schools: primary and secondary, so I would have expected to have isolated several times. But we are in France where all school children and everyone else in school wears a mask, all the time. I think that keeps our school infections low compared to the UK.

Also, primary school children are not considered to be cas contact to each other or to a mask wearing adult, so a single positive case in a primary class does not result in the class closing. In secondary, again they assume that everyone has been wearing a mask all the time therefore no cas contact from a single case therefore classes rarely closed. I think the rule is 3 cases in a class will close the class.

Also, primary school children are not considered to be cas contact to each other or to a mask wearing adult, so a single positive case in a primary class does not result in the class closing.

It does here (Scotland) which is why I'm sat at home trying to help perfectly healthy dc1 with his schoolwork whilst also entertaining dc2. One child in the class tested positive, all the rest of them have been told to self isolate.

I have tested once and so has my daughter so an overnight of worry, but no periods of isolation yet. We are Oxford and my younger daughter's secondary school is yet to have a case, but I know that will change any day (probably December 18th, so that will help sort out my Xmas bubble worries!!) My sister works in a primary school near here and they're constantly sending groups home to isolate

None, if you don't count 2 weeks of quarantine back in August after a holiday to France. Hertfordshire.

@Skipsurvey

none, south east. i have taken tests but the results are back so quickly i wouldnt really count it as isolating.

Hoping this is us tomorrow child 1 tested this lunchtime. But first time Covid has been mentioned from school.

None -Hampshire. DS has one week left in college after this week so hoping we'll get to the end with no drama.

None. North East.