FFS -Teen positive but mother and sibling took flight

[habibihabibi]

Mother, teen and young sibling living abroad and needed PCR to travel 48 hours before flight .Teen result postive so she couldnt fly and remained in country with Father. Sibling and mother negative so they took the flight. This is another way it is spreading folks ...

Can you explain a wee bit further?

Are they in the U.K.?

I read about it on a facebook travel page. Surely if the teen is positive the other household members who travelled risk spreading it to the passengers on the plane. It was SEA to U.K .

In the U.K. you would be required to isolate.

What airline? Did they test at the airport?

What FB page? (the oracle that it is)

they travelled by sea to the UK - pp! Who reported this & on what media? (reliability of story?)

@mumwon

they travelled by sea to the UK - pp! Who reported this & on what media? (reliability of story?)

SEA = south east asia

Oh. SEA to me is Seattle Airport

@mumwon

They didn't travel by sea. The thread is about them taking a flight

So what, anybody can enter the UK apparently, with little or no checking. One of the many reasons we're fucked.

Confusing?
So it was on a facebook travel page - so was it written by the person concerned or by someone who knew of this? (Didn't connect SEA as South East Asia)
Mind one thing unrelated - that aeroplane that cause the ruckus over East Anglia yesterday - it was stated on one story on line that it came from Germany. I did wonder if it was a private aeroplane trying to avoid lockdown rules.

@mumwon

It lost communication with ATC hence the QRA, nothing to do with avoiding lockdown rules. It was on the ground for an hour and a half before getting a lot to continue to its destination airport Birmingham.

Private jets fly all over the world every day. They passengers are subject to the same arrival rules as a commercial airline passenger.

*getting a slot

Someone posted asking how long they should expect their asymatic teen to test postive for. They were trying to book her on another flight as an unaccompanied minor. My point is, the mum and sibling living with the teen were likely shedding to all at the airport at either end , in taxis and on the flight.

@habibihabibi

Someone posted asking how long they should expect their asymatic teen to test postive for. They were trying to book her on another flight as an unaccompanied minor. My point is, the mum and sibling living with the teen were likely shedding to all at the airport at either end , in taxis and on the flight.

The thing is, and it's not even been clarified, they are not in the U.K. we don't know the rules of that country they were in. Now obviously they should not have flown and should have isolated, but if the airport let them through and the airline let them fly, it seems they may have played by the rules of the country they were in?

They wouldn't be considered infectious with a negative test though. In the U.K. we isolate if we are a close contact because we may develop the virus, and become contagious. I'm not so sure testing negative that they could be contagious. Let's hope the isolate on return.

Tbh they/you haven't really given enough information