Backdating symptoms start to limit isolation

[sirfredfredgeorge]

So Andrew Marr caught covid
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57640550

Initial symptoms were not cough/fever/lack of smell, so decided to carry on with life running errands outdoors etc. after 2 (wasteful) LFT's

Sometime later, he decided to take a PCR, but then backdated the start of isolation to these other symptoms, releasing him from quarantine earlier than would be policy.

My understanding of the rules this is wrong - the 10 days from first symptoms are only if you do the test and isolate whilst waiting for results, not if you spend your time running errands and get out of isolation.

So is this legal to tell track & trace that you had a bit of "summer cold" five or six days before you actually test thus releasing you almost immediately?

Oh that’s interesting so they didn’t count the hay fever days!

@Karwomannghia

Oh that’s interesting so they didn’t count the hay fever days!

Yes they did but it would be counted from the Tuesday anyway. So it's full days

Does anyone know that if a household is isolating for 10 days due to a confirmed case in the family but someone else tests positive after a few days. Does this extend the isolation for the person who initially tested positive with Covid? Or can they return to work after 10 days?

@Cuppaand2biscuits

Does anyone know that if a household is isolating for 10 days due to a confirmed case in the family but someone else tests positive after a few days. Does this extend the isolation for the person who initially tested positive with Covid? Or can they return to work after 10 days?

The first person can go back to work as normal. In fact the only person who extends their isolation I'm sure is the new poorly person

@CroydianSlip

What is the science behind the 10 days? When I last looked for data it said the vast majority of infections that cause symptoms occurred withing 5-7 days of transmission so I'd say a huge number of oeiole are still out and about when infectious and needlessly isolating when they're prob already not at the end.

I believe average for transmission is 5-7 days but can be up to 14 in some cases - the majority of people were not isolating for 14 - which is why it was it was reduced to 10 apart from high rise situations eg care homes, hospitals etc which remains at 14 days

@Cuppaand2biscuits

Does anyone know that if a household is isolating for 10 days due to a confirmed case in the family but someone else tests positive after a few days. Does this extend the isolation for the person who initially tested positive with Covid? Or can they return to work after 10 days?

The initial positive person can come out of isolation after their 10 days unless they still have high temp, runny nose and sneezing - or sickness & diarrhoea. The new positive household member receives a new isolation date in line with their symptom start date or positive test.