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Self isolation cut short if you have a test?

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greyinganddecaying · 25/05/2021 23:20

If someone is told to self isolate for 10 days after being in close contact with someone who tested positive (via the app), can they take a covid test to cut short the isolation time if it comes back negative?

I think not, but OH thinks you can - can't find an answer to this online.

OP posts:
PurpleSunrise · 25/05/2021 23:22

Nope. Sorry!

LaurieFairyCake · 25/05/2021 23:24

No, you can't

Only if you fly in from abroad (on day 5). It's called test and release but you can't do it if you haven't traveled

Librariesmakeshhhhappen · 25/05/2021 23:25

What do you mean you cant find an answer? The NHS website is very clear.

If you are contacted, you isolate for 10 days from the day you had contact with the positive case. You dont leave the house for any reason.

A negative test on day 4/5/6 etc means nothing. You could develop symptoms on day 10, and most people wont test positive until symptoms appear. You could test negative, go out, start shedding the virus and then develop symptoms.

You both need to isolate.

Original poster
greyinganddecaying · 25/05/2021 23:43

Thanks all. Glad I was right! Just couldn't find clarification on that specific question online.

Oddly only one of us has been told to isolate (via "close contact" notification)

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Thirtyrock39 · 26/05/2021 18:40

Track and trace may offer you a place e in a study where you have a 50:50 chance of doing daily tests to be able to go to work- one half stays in self isolation and the other do daily testing I was contacted by them Saturday and offered to be entered but typically on Monday was told I was in the study but in the self isolation group ! So still stuck inside for ten days
This is quite a new thing and was reported early may so this may be what your dh was on about

Thirtyrock39 · 26/05/2021 18:42

Just for clarity it's only if the nhs say you are on this daily testing study and group that you can do this otherwise it's illegal to not do the full ten days isolating

Torvean · 27/05/2021 02:13

@Thirtyrock39

Track and trace may offer you a place e in a study where you have a 50:50 chance of doing daily tests to be able to go to work- one half stays in self isolation and the other do daily testing I was contacted by them Saturday and offered to be entered but typically on Monday was told I was in the study but in the self isolation group ! So still stuck inside for ten days This is quite a new thing and was reported early may so this may be what your dh was on about
Can you explain the study.

Are you saying that if notified as a close contact 50% self isolate and the others can go out but have to test daily?

MRex · 27/05/2021 05:45

@LaurieFairyCake

No, you can't

Only if you fly in from abroad (on day 5). It's called test and release but you can't do it if you haven't traveled

People flying from abroad haven't necessarily been in contact with a positive case, they are just considered higher risk of having been unwittingly in contact, so it's a different rule.
scaevola · 27/05/2021 05:52

Test and release for travellers' quarantine is totally unrelated to the requirement for contact SI (for which testing does not and never has allowed early release)

denverRegina · 27/05/2021 05:54

Why is it odd that only one of you needs to isolate?

Mumdiva99 · 27/05/2021 05:56

@Thirtyrock39

Track and trace may offer you a place e in a study where you have a 50:50 chance of doing daily tests to be able to go to work- one half stays in self isolation and the other do daily testing I was contacted by them Saturday and offered to be entered but typically on Monday was told I was in the study but in the self isolation group ! So still stuck inside for ten days This is quite a new thing and was reported early may so this may be what your dh was on about
My son's school has joined this study. But we are a control school so if he was a close contact he still has to self isolate. (I assume the test school will have to do a number of negative tests and be allowed to leave isolation based on those).
scaevola · 27/05/2021 06:29

@denverRegina

Why is it odd that only one of you needs to isolate?
Presumably some people don't realise that the person in isolation is meant to isolate as far as possible from their cohabitants?
schofieldsunderpants · 27/05/2021 06:52

@Thirtyrock39

Track and trace may offer you a place e in a study where you have a 50:50 chance of doing daily tests to be able to go to work- one half stays in self isolation and the other do daily testing I was contacted by them Saturday and offered to be entered but typically on Monday was told I was in the study but in the self isolation group ! So still stuck inside for ten days This is quite a new thing and was reported early may so this may be what your dh was on about
My sons school is taking part in something like this
Thirtyrock39 · 27/05/2021 07:40

torvean it was reported in the press early may ...basically there are two groups in this test study so if eligible (I don't know how they decide this but if a contact of variant of concern you can't be in it ) you have a 50:50 chance of daily testing with a combo of lateral flows and pcr tests and being allowed to leave isolation for essential reasons eg work but not socialising etc
I was really excited when told I was eligible but got placed in the blooming isolation group which just means an extra pcr test is sent out half way through the ten days / you have to still do ten days isolation regardless

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