Hotel guest tested positive for covid, now what?

[ihavenoidea20]

Hi all.
Have been to work today (hotel), manager came and informed me that a guest that departed this morning after staying quite a while with us, phoned her after he left to tell her he has tested positive for covid.

One of the housekeepers had already been in the room for around 40 minutes & cleaned it.

Manager took housekeeper to get a quick test, which is negative.
I can't help feeling like she should be going home, isolating & then getting a proper swab test in a few days? Manager seems to think its all ok and says said housekeeper will be in work again tomorrow.
I also wonder about us other housekeepers? I'm thinking to isolate now and get a test in a few days time to be on the safe side.

Sorry I know i probably sound as thick as a plank but genuinely have no idea what the process is after something like this happens.

Thank you.

@brieandbacon

why on earth didn't they lock the door and leave the room for a few days?!

Probably because there's little to no evidence that you can pick it up merely from being in a space where someone previously was?

That is how you use lateral flow testing

However she didnt need testing at all.

If she was wearing appropriate PPE then she doesn't need testing and doesn't need to isolate and neither do you

It sounds like same sorts of measures that anyone working in health care, dentistry or care home would take and expect to be 'protective enough' to not treat selves as exposed contacts.

Why do you think you need to isolate? Did you have contact with the guest?

Honestly 🙄 you haven't been in contact with the actual person, neither has the person who cleaned the room who was in fact wearing correct PPE!
If we went on your reasoning OP, every single member of staff who enters a hospital ward, care home, ambulance or other would need to isolate for 10 days after every shift.

She can’t have passed it on to you yet. It would take 48hours before she’s contagious. So if she now isolates, you and the other staff are absolutely fine.

@ThePricklySheep

She can’t have passed it on to you yet. It would take 48hours before she’s contagious. So if she now isolates, you and the other staff are absolutely fine.

None of them need to isolate! Except the positive guest.

Your manager is thick as a plank if he thinks the housekeeper will test positive just after being in the room, what a dickhead. Your approach is far more sensible.

I cba to work out if the cleaner needs to isolate or not , Beaky

@ThePricklySheep she never met the guy 🤣

Yeah I know, but I don’t know what happens in that situation, to be technically correct. If they had gone straight into the room and not been told about the positive.
I dunno.

No action was required

By testing the cleaner the manager went above what was required.

That could be seen to be demonstrating excellent employee care and safeguarding above what is required

Have you not come into contact with many people who have had Covid OP?.

@BeakyWinder

Woah, since when did anyone have to isolate after NOT being in contact with a positive person, just entering a room they have previously been in??

My thoughts exactly. You are a contact if you’ve been in close proximity to the actual person testing positive, not just their room.