Do I need to cancel my holiday (UK?)

[dryshampooer]

Me, my DH and our 2 DDs have all tested positive, and I am struggling to decide if we can finish our isolation in time for our planned UK holiday starting Mon 5 July. The timeline is:

Weds 23 June - DD1's school calls to say she is a close contact of a positive case. Both DDs come home from school. The whole family attends a drive through centre and takes a PCR test. No-one has any symptoms. DDs begin to isolate.

Thursday 24 June - I start to have aches and pains.

Fri 25 June - both DDs and I receive a positive result. DH's test is inconclusive. He takes another PCR test.

Sat 26 June - DH receives a positive result.

Sun 27 June - we are contacted by Test & Protect (Scotland) and are instructed to end isolation as follows based on when symptoms started and when test results received (DDs Fri 2 Jul, me Sat 3 Jul, DH Sun 4 Jul). I am hugely relieved as isolation will end day before our holiday!)

Mon 28 June - DD2 (age 10) complains of a sore head. We take her temperature, and it is slightly raised. She has had the odd sniffle/occasional cough in the last few days, but nothing significant and hard to pinpoint first time I noticed these.

My view is that we should follow the instructions and dates formally received through Test & Protect, and that as long as all our family are symptom free by the time we are due to depart, we can go as planned?

However, I know that guidance is to re-start the 10 days for someone who develops symptoms during isolation. Would this apply in DD2's case? I'm anxious to do the right thing, but feel sick at the thought of telling DDs the holiday is off. No scope to re-schedule.

She had already tested positive though so it would be from date of test? I think the if your show symptoms side of things is for if you haven’t tested posribe and are just a close contact

Is this a dd that has already had a positive test and is still within their isolation period? You don't restart isolation unless you have finished your isolation period and then get new symptoms

Can you push back the start date until the Tuesday/Wednesday. Best case scenario would the Tuesday but I think its probably finishes on the Tuesday so you could go Weds?

Or cancel that one and find another shorter one. Exactly what and for how long have you booked?

We had this over half term and ended up on a 2 night vacation!

Bascially you need to pinpoint when your DD2 started to feel ill as she is your issue. If it started Friday/Saturday you are fine

DD had a positive test though so it's from that date?

Hopefully you'll all feel well enough to go.

I think it's from the date she tested positive so you're fine assuming all well enough to go

To clarify, DD2 took her PCR test on Weds 23 June. That test was positive, and she's been isolating since then. The section I'm looking at on the gov.uk website is:

"If you are isolating because of a positive test result but did not have any symptoms, and you develop COVID-19 symptoms within your isolation period, start a new 10 day isolation period by counting 10 full days from the day following your symptom onset."

In practice I think most people isolate for 10 days from the date of their test, and then come out of isolation presuming they are symptom free. Looking back, I might remember DD2 having the odd sniffle or cough shortly after her test, but not sure if I am mis-remembering as I'm trying to convince myself she had symptoms.

Is there a way of contacting T&T? Or are they hard to get hold of.

@PurpleyBlue I could contact Test & Protect, but I'm worried they'll have no choice but to take an ultra-cautious approach and revise the dates of DD2's isolation. As things stand, I have guidance from them that she comes out of isolation on Friday (10 days after her test). If she hadn't happened to have mentioned she had a headache last night, I wouldn't have taken her temp, and nothing would have changed.
If I do call them, they'll ask when her symptoms started, and what will I say? I think maybe she sniffed and cleared her throat last Friday - please let me take them on hols!

I would say you are fine then - its likely she starting feeling rough before she complained as she was positive from the Weds.

I would go then if you have all been isolating from June 23rd and come out for Monday 5th

@dryshampooer ahhh I see sorry! I was a bit slow working through it there!

Because she likely on Monday just felt a worsening of symptoms and stated it

When I was contacted by track and trace they said if you still had a cough/no sense of taste and smell by the end of the 10 days then the isolation period would still be complete.

I think you are fine to go, so long as DD2 is feeling better and doesn’t have a temperature. She will have completed 10 days since positive PCR and may just have a couple of mild symptoms mid isolation.

You’ve still got a few days to decide.